Re: Certain font sizes can't be configured permanently

[Tony Houghton <h realh co uk>]

Do you mean that when you load gnome-tweaks, it shows the scaling factor to be 1.6, but the desktop does not use that setting until you change it, then change it back to 1.6? This implies that the setting is being saved correctly, but another part of GNOME is failing to honour it at start-up. Fractional scaling is quite a new feature, so maybe some old integer-only settings have been left behind and are clashing. Try running these commands:

gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor

Based on the Arch wiki page for hidpi, I think the first two are obsolete integer settings and the third is for fractional scaling, so you want the first to show an empty list ('@a{sv} {}'), or at least not contain 'Gdk/WindowScalingFactor', and the second to be zero. The last should show 1.6. If the first two are not empty/zero, I bet that's what's causing the problem. You should be able to fix it with:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "[]"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 0

Monitor drivers never really existed, they were just files that contained mode information in the "old days" before EDID etc made it all automatic. They were called drivers to make it simpler for Windows users to understand. In Linux you used to have to edit X config files instead. I'm quite sure they are of no relevance to your current issue.

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 16:17, Volker Wysk <post volker-wysk de> wrote:

Hi!

I have a 4k monitor, which means that all the font sizes must be
adjusted. I'm leaving the font sizes in gnome-tweaks alone, and am
setting a scaling factor of 1.6 instead. This worked fine until about a
week ago.

But now, after I log in, the configured font sizes don't seem to be in
effect. The fonts of the top bar, and of the icons on the desktop, are
tiny again.

When I change the scaling factor, in gnome-tweaks, the fonts are back
to the configured size immediately. It's enough to increase it by 0,01
and set it back to 1.6 again.

But the next time I log in, it's all back to tiny fonts again.

Is there any Gnome configuration magic, for how to set it permanently?

Cheers,
Volker
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