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I bought a 3.5" LED screen that is on my Pi, however it is nearly impossible to use because edges of windows are clipped off etc.

How can I 'zoom out' so that all the windows are really tiny? Basically so I can fit the entire display on the screen.

Thanks

Code Cowboy
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Use XRandR panning.

First , determine the display names.

xrandr -q

Then setup the panning itself :

xrandr --output DISPLAYNAME --mode 640x480 --panning 1920x1080

Use this to restore the normal mode :

xrandr -s 1920x1080
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overscan would most likely fix this issue. See this post, and the official docs. Basically, overscan fine tunes the image size. You can change the overscan with sudo raspi-config or you can change the overscan more precisely by editing /boot/config.txt but you shouldn't need to. But if you need to edit /boot/config.txt, check the official docs for config.txt. You would want to add/edit the parameters overscan_left=, overscan_right=, overscan_top=, overscan_bottom= and set them equal to something bigger, just mess with the number and see what works best.

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Patrick Cook
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You’re dealing with a completely different piece of hardware. The main problem with using a pi pico . Is the memory buffer size. Since you can’t even fit the full screen into the tiny memory of the pico, you have to resort to working on the screen in sections the only way to create any decent code to fit is to split the screen into four horizontal bands each containing 1/4 of the buffer size, so as you can guess you can forget, animations in fullscreen or videos .

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startx -- -dpi xx Try different xx settings for your display

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