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Thunderbird on two monitors with different resolutions

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I have Thunderbird installed on my laptop running Fedora 40 with Gnome on Wayland. I have two monitors with different resolutions.

The laptop monitor has a resolution of 1920x1080 whereas the external monitor has a resolution of 1360x768.

Thunderbird display fine on the main monitor, but when I move it to the external display, everything becomes huge and unusable.

I don't want to scale things in such a way that I have the opposite problem, that is things are way too small on the laptop monitor. Is there a way to have Thunderbird scale properly on the external monitor to have it maintain the right proportions on both monitors?

I have Thunderbird installed on my laptop running Fedora 40 with Gnome on Wayland. I have two monitors with different resolutions. The laptop monitor has a resolution of 1920x1080 whereas the external monitor has a resolution of 1360x768. Thunderbird display fine on the main monitor, but when I move it to the external display, everything becomes huge and unusable. I don't want to scale things in such a way that I have the opposite problem, that is things are way too small on the laptop monitor. Is there a way to have Thunderbird scale properly on the external monitor to have it maintain the right proportions on both monitors?

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Matt
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Short answer is no.

Wayne Mery
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Another way to put it, Firefox likely has the same issue. And Thunderbird's graphics is built on the same base as Firefox.