Re: GNOME is scaled to 1.5 with the update

Hey, are you still having this problem?

On Sat, 2025-04-19 at 08:07 +0000, Arun Mani J wrote:
> With the latest updates to Debian Testing, the GNOME UI is scaled to 1.5 =
from
> the previous default of 1. The screen now shows forcefully zoomed and bre=
aks
> games and other full-screen apps.
> For the GNOME Shell (the one after we login), I changed the scale to 100%=
 in
> GNOME Control Center -> Displays -> Scale. Now the shell is back to norma=
l.
> =C2=A0
> But the login screen (I think called GDM) is still on 1.5 scale. How can =
I
> revert this or is it a bug that will be fixed?

GNOME Control Center -> Displays -> Scale ...
That's the each-user manual way. It is possible to set global pre-defined
(upside the distribution specific) defaults (also for GDM) in the following=
 way:

~~~
mkdir -p /etc/dconf/db/local.d
mkdir -p /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d
mkdir -p /etc/dconf/profile

cat >/etc/dconf/profile/user << EOF
user-db:user
system-db:local
EOF

cat >/etc/dconf/profile/gdm << EOF
user-db:user
system-db:gdm
file-db:/usr/share/gdm/greeter-dconf-defaults
EOF

cat >/etc/dconf/db/local.d/ArunMani-default << EOF
# Show weekdate as default for all user
[org/gnome/desktop/calendar]
show-weekdate=3Dtrue

# All user can choose between en|de in the top right corner
[org/gnome/desktop/input-sources]
sources=3D[('xkb', 'de'), ('xkb', 'us')]

# Trash etc. settings
[org/gnome/desktop/privacy]
remove-old-temp-files=3Dtrue
old-files-age=3Duint32 14
remove-old-trash-files=3Dtrue

# ...
# ...
EOF


cat >/etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/00-login-screen << EOF
[org/gnome/login-screen]
disable-user-list=3Dtrue

[org/gnome/desktop/interface]
scaling-factor=3Duint32 1
EOF


# Must be run after changes:
/usr/bin/dconf update

~~~

https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/login-userlist-disab=
le.html.en
For your issue only the GDM (and scaling-factor) settings are needed. I've =
shown
some more examples just for the sake of completeness.


Best,
Ren=C3=A9

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