Am Samstag, den 12.09.2020, 14:56 +0100 schrieb Tony Houghton:
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?
Exactly.
This implies that the setting is being saved correctly, but another part of GNOME is failing to honour it at start-up.
Yes, I've thought it was something like that, too.
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.
$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides
@a{sv} {}
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor
uint32 0
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor
1.6000000000000001
If the first two are not empty/zero, I bet that's what's causing the problem.
Well, they are...
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.
Yes, it doesn't affect the whole screen. Only font sizes are affected... This doesn't look like a "driver" issue to me, too.
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?
Regards, Volker
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