[15:38] <jjosh> is there a different way to scale my resolution for high DPI displays? The method I found only accepts integers (which is too much for my uses)
[15:44] <brainwash> jjosh: but anything in-between will give you a blurry result
[15:45] <brainwash> jjosh: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13256
[15:47] <jjosh> aw that's a bummer
[17:08] <TheMadDrizzle> HOping someone can help me build a bootable USB stick.  I need to install a file into the /BOOT/EFI/ directory to get my laptop to register for EFI booting (using a 32bit UEFI file to boot a 64bit OS) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to push this file into the directory - Can't even ' sudo cp **file** /media/**USER**/**OS**/BOOT/EFI/**file** '  It marks this directory as read only.
[17:14] <diogenes_> TheMadDrizzle, i can give you a script to make a live usb where you can put anything you like, but first tell me what distro you runing.
[17:16] <TheMadDrizzle> diogenes_, I'm running this all from UbuntuStudio 20.04 and have the usb drive already burnt for Xubuntu 20.04 to install onto my old laptop.
[17:17] <TheMadDrizzle> diogenes_, I just need to install boot32ia.efi into the /BOOT/EFI/ directory of the USB stick but I can't figure out how to change the owner of this drive - it just tells me that the usb drive is a ' read only file system '
[17:18] <diogenes_> TheMadDrizzle, you can't modify a usb drive like that because it's read-only that's why you need a live usb multiboot.
[17:20] <TheMadDrizzle> diogenes_, So do I just need to reburn this usb stick?
[17:22] <diogenes_> no, you need to erase it, create partitions, install grub on it and copy the iso then create a menu entry for it.
[18:08] <tomreyn> diogenes_: i just used usb-creator-gtk to write an ubuntu (not xubuntu) 20.04.1 amd64 iso to a usb stick, then unomunted all of the mounted file systems off it, then used     sudo mount /dev/disk/by-id/usb-*-part2 /mnt     to mount the ESP writable (to root only), and wrote a file there (as root).
[18:08] <tomreyn> so at least placing another efi boot loader on the ESP should be possible.
[18:09] <tomreyn> i'm not sure whether this would apply to xubuntu, though
[18:10] <diogenes_> tomreyn, no clue i've never tried that method.
[18:11] <tomreyn> it wouldn'T work for any of the data ont he first partition, though, which contains anything that's not on the efi system partition
[18:13] <diogenes_> also what size is there by defaulf for the efi partition? like 10Mb?
[18:17] <tomreyn> fdisk reports 3.9MB, indeed this could be a problem
[18:18] <tomreyn> diogenes_: good point, there are only 10 KB available, so this approach wouldn't work without repartitioning.
[18:19] <diogenes_> yeah no go.