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[Nick Rosbrook <2039722@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  "Large Text" accessibility option cannot be turned off. Text is too
  large

Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  SUMMARY

  There is a little "accessibility" menu in the top right of my screen.
  If I click it, there is a switch saying "Large Text". It is enabled.
  If I click it to turn it off, it switches off, but nothing changes. If
  I then log out and back in, then click the accessibility menu, I find
  "Large Text" has been switched back on.

  If in the "accessibility" menu I click "Accessibility Settings", it
  brings up a pane in the Settings app ("org.gnome.Settings.desktop"?).
  If I then click "Seeing", I see several settings, one of which is
  "Large Text". If I turn off "Large Text" here, it switches off, but
  nothing changes. If I then close Settings and choose "Accessibility
  Settings" then "Seeing" again, I find "Large Text" has been switched
  back on.

  Additionally, all the text on my screen is too large. It is making it
  hard to use the computer.

  NOTE: I would appreciate a rapid response in terms of "what
  information do you need me to gather to ensure the bug can be
  diagnosed properly". I have not fully debugged yet (I have not messed
  with gsettings, etc) because I don't want to destroy the bug state
  before gathering the appropriate diagnostics.

  CONTEXT / DETAILED EXPLANATION

  I have a hunch the Ubuntu installer is partially to blame, so I'm
  going to describe the events leading up to the problem.

  Yesterday I got a new ThinkPad. This ThinkPad is "1.5x retina". That
  means it is 1080p (1920x1200 to be exact) in a laptop form factor and
  in order for things to look "normal size" it must display at 150%. The
  copy of Windows on the laptop was configured for 150% display scale
  for example. I took the ThinkPad out of the box and immediately wiped
  the Windows partition and installed 22.04 LTS from a USB stick. This
  worked but I had difficulty because the installer was running at 1x
  and so all the text was very small. My eyesight is not very good and I
  can read regular computer text but anything smaller than regular I
  have trouble. Once I got into the OS though I could set the display
  scale to 150% using Displays->Fractional Scale + Scale. Then
  everything looked good. I was happy. I did notice the Login screen had
  very small text though.

  My 22.04 LTS worked well but a friend told me it's better to use
  regular updates rather than LTS, so I wiped my 22.04 LTS partition and
  installed 23.10.1 from a USB stick. This time I noticed something in
  the installer. The installer had an accessibility menu (little T pose
  man icon) and one of the options was "Large Text". Perfect! I clicked
  "Large Text" and my complaint about the text being too small to read
  in the installer was fixed. I installed 23.10 and booted. When I got
  to the login screen on first boot I noticed the accessibility menu
  again so I selected "Large Text" so the text on the login screen would
  not be so small. Then I logged in. I immediately set my display scale
  to 150% as before.

  Inside 23.10, I quickly noticed that all the text was larger than I
  expected. Web pages that fit on my screen before did not anymore. A
  specific thing I noticed was the Mouse & Keyboard screen, the titlebar
  tabs were crowded where they had not been in 22.04 (see screenshot).
  It was then I noticed the anamolous, forced-on "Large Text" in the
  accessibility menu.

  Remembering that I had set "Large Text" in the login screen, I tried
  logging out, turning off login screen "Large Text" and logging back
  in. The login screen "Large Text" is remembered correctly and on re-
  entering login large text remains off. But it did not help with "Large
  Text" being stuck on in the logged-in Wayland session.

  I think 150% and "Large Text" are stacking and the two are combining
  to make everything too big. My hunch is that either enabling "Large
  Text" in the installer, or enabling "Large Text" in the login screen
  on first login, set "Large Text" in a strange way which is making it
  stuck on.

  EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

  It is unexpected to me that setting "Large Text" in either the
  installer, or the login screen, has an effect on the logged-in
  session. If setting scale/accessibility options in a logged-in session
  does not flow backward into the login screen, then I would not expect
  accessibility options in the login screen to flow forward into the
  logged-in session. In any case, a setting which cannot be turned off
  and turns itself back on is obviously unacceptable.

  RELATED PROBLEM

  If I click the accessibility menu and choose "Accessibility Settings" at the top there is an "Accessibility Menu" option (I have a screenshot but it is only letting me attach one thing). It says "Display menu for settings in top bar". This option is turned off. But the accessibility menu is visible. Turning this checkbox on, or off, has no effect. I do not know if this is the same problem or a different problem. My expected behavior is if a checkbox does nothing it should be removed.
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  ProblemType: Bug
  ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CloudArchitecture: x86_64
  CloudID: none
  CloudName: none
  CloudPlatform: none
  CloudSubPlatform: config
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-10-18 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.10.1 "Mantic Minotaur" - Release amd64 (20231016.1)
  Package: gnome-settings-daemon 45.0-1ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm-256color
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-9.9-generic 6.5.3
  Tags: mantic wayland-session
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-9-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sudo users
  _MarkForUpload: True

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