i set the resolution at 1280x720 but everytime i log in it revert back to 1920x1080

[woven tangle]

Any Solution??

[agile jasper]

If you want bigger fonts make the fonts bigger or set a scale factor instead of seting your screen to the wrong resolution

[drifting sage]

You can manually edit cinnamon-monitors.xml in .config folder in your home (hidden), if it doesn't save for some reason

[agile jasper]

I repeat you don't actually want this. Nobody does.

[unkempt quiver]

or use Mint DISPLAY settings to change it, not via xrandr in terminal

[agile jasper]

This does sound like how it would logically get reverted

But to repeat if you want your UI a little bigger you don't set your entire monitor to the wrong resolution you adjust scale or font sizes as appropriate

[unkempt quiver]

I prefer it quasi-HD not full HD anyway so everything including taskbar isnt microscopic. perhaps OP does too

[agile jasper]

Display scaling...is a thing

The altrantive is like rotating your entire body instead of turning your phone

Settings -> Display -> Monitor scale

May need to go to setings and enable fractional scale

[drifting sage]

@unkempt quiver@agile jasper In case you misunderstood, the OP's problem is that cinnamon (display settings) doesn't remember the resolution, and changes back to 1080p, not about scaling

[agile jasper]

I understood there is no reason to ever set a panel to a non-native resolution to make stuff bigger

[unkempt quiver]

oh i understood. i told him how

it should remember that method, not via xrandr

[spark lotus]

maybe the reason wasn't the scaling at all

other reason could have been:

• to prevent gpu from becoming too hot
• to save electricity/energy
• have the gpu less loud (as it has to work less hard)

or, they play games, which need a lower resolution

[agile jasper]

None of those are real

[spark lotus]

i, too, prefer to have a lower resolution, than my monitor can handle at maximum (luckily, it saves this alternate resolution)

native resolution graphics/text look different than scaled-up graphics on a higher resolution

[agile jasper]

Generally games are run Fullscreen and set the resolution and power or GPU utilization isn't meaningfully different at the 2 given resolutions

[spark lotus]

and some apps/programs can't even be upscaled

[agile jasper]

Scaling at X's level works on apps from 1995