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HiDPI Scaling (this time via -forcedesktopscaling) is broken once again
Your system information
- Steam client version: 1717294964 and previous 2 or 3 months
- Distribution: NixOS 23.05 with KDE 5
- Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
- Have you checked for system updates?: No
- GPU: Nvidia
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Using -forcedesktopscaling 1.75 used to work to scale the UI to a readable state. Now it doesn't do that anymore and Steam is pretty much unusable (once again!) on smaller 4k screens. Please consider switching your development machines to 4k displays, the code looks much crispier that way, too ;-)
Steps for reproducing this issue:
- Launch: steam -forcedesktopscaling 1.75
- Observe it running with the tiniest fonts imaginable (more or less unreadable!)
same for me, forcedesktopscaling parameter ignored
- ubuntu 24.04
- GNOME Shell 46.0
- wayland
- non fractional scale : 300%
- Steam version : 1718305227
in fact, it works for me
before I had to set -forcedesktopscaling=1.5 now it's -forcedesktopscaling=3
¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯
This broke for me too now with client version 1763795278, or maybe the GNOME update from 49.1 to 49.2.
I use Wayland with /org/gnome/desktop/interface/text-scaling-factor set to 1.25, and display scaling set to 100%.
Previously this scaling factor was used by Steam automatically if the setting "Scale text and icons to match monitor settings" was enabled, and could be overriden with -forcedesktopscaling or STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING. Now none of these methods work, but someone pointed out the new (?) "UI Scale" slider in Steam's accessibility settings, which does work and lets me set the correct scaling manually.
The only annoyance I have now is that the cursor size isn't scaled, I have /org/gnome/desktop/interface/cursor-size set to 48 but setting XCURSOR_SIZE=48 (or any other value) doesn't have any effect.
Also checked today's Steam beta, same behavior there.
Oh nevermind my previous comment, this seems to be a current bug in Debian where gsd-xsettings isn't getting started:
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1121628
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8866
Workaround is to run systemctl --user start gnome-session-x11-services-ready.target
