Moving window to smaller monitor increases window size

Hello,

I just bought a new small monitor (portable if that matters) and when I move a window from my larger monitor to the small monitor, the window at first seems to be smaller, but as drag it more into the monitor, it instantly expands. It's almost as if it tries to match the size of my words across monitors. Is there some setting I can choose what happens?

Thanks.

rasmasyean said:

Hello,

I just bought a new small monitor (portable if that matters) and when I move a window from my larger monitor to the small monitor, the window at first seems to be smaller, but as drag it more into the monitor, it instantly expands. It's almost as if it tries to match the size of my words across monitors. Is there some setting I can choose what happens?

Thanks.

only if you keep both monitors to same resolution .

nIGHTmAYOR said:

only if you keep both monitors to same resolution .

Are you saying that it auto-adjusts resolution based on some "inches spec"?

They are both set to 1920x1080. One is 27-inch. The other is 15.8-inch. If I move the window partially into the smaller monitor, it looks right. Everything is shrunk as you'd expect. But then all of the sudden moving it further in...it's as if it changes the resolution automatically. Is this some default "special feature" of my video card or something?

selden said:

The amount of scaling is a per-display setting.

Open Settings/System/Display, choose the display you want to change, then choose the appropriate size and resolution values.

The size value for the smaller display probably is set to 125% or greater. (I seem to recall that 125% is the default for 1080p displays.)

Ah...it was set to 150% (recommended). So what exactly happened? Did this display have some attribute sent back over HDMI that tells the OS to set it to 150%? I don't remember ever seeing something other than 100% as default whenever I connected new monitors/TV's to a PC.