[squeak-smalltalk/squeak-app] Revert linux scale factor workaround for memory leak in VM (PR #45)

Christoph Thiede via Squeak-dev <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:42:49 -0700
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This relates to the concrete bug reported in https://github.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-object-memory/issues/151: On Linux systems with a scale factor >100%, the launched VM would misdetect the scale factor (e.g., 250% instead of 200%).

The original VM issue described in #642 has been solved in https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/f5b6485efb8064f834dcdcd7c910f3c3750db835 (released since 202311211431).

I have tested this change on Ubuntu 24 with both X11 and Wayland/XWayland and the scale factor is detected correctly now. I could also not observe any further memory leaks by following the measureements described in [#642](https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/642).
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  https://github.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-app/pull/45

-- Commit Summary --

  * Revert linux scale factor workaround for memory leak in VM

-- File Changes --

    M templates/linux/squeak.sh (4)

-- Patch Links --

https://github.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-app/pull/45.patch
https://github.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-app/pull/45.diff

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