← Back to team overview

dx-packages team mailing list archive

[Bug 1310316] Re: Text scaling factor changing unexpectedly

 

I too expereince system fonts suddenly being displayed at a much lower
scaling factor than the 0,9 I have set.

I suspect that this could have happen when I take the laptop in and out
of its docking station changing between the laptop screen and a monitor
with a higher resolution.

Also I observe strange behaviour when I try to reset the scaling  factor
in gnome-tweak-tool. Usually the scale factor have been set to something
like 0.5. Using the plus button to increase the scale factor I observe
that the value I set is immediately reduced back to the smaller value
without my intervention.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX
Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu.
Matching subscriptions: dx-packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1310316

Title:
  Text scaling factor changing unexpectedly

Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have a MacBook pro with a Retina display. I have set the "Scale for
  menu and title bars"  setting (into Settings > Displays) to 1.5 to
  make the UI looks good on my screen. That works very well. But
  sometimes, usually after logging, all the fonts of the UI become much
  bigger.

  When that happen I open unity tweat tool and notice that the text
  scaling factor changed to 2.25. If I reset it to 1 the all the fonts
  go back to normal.

  The problem does not happen all the time. I would say it happen one
  time out of three logging. It may also happen when installing
  applications from the software center. I have yet to find a procedure
  to reproduce it all the times.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
  .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
  .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
  .proc.driver.nvidia.version:
   NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  331.38  Wed Jan  8 19:32:30 PST 2014
   GCC version:  gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Apr 20 18:21:02 2014
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   bbswitch, 0.7, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
   bcmwl, 6.30.223.141+bdcom, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
   nvidia-331, 331.38, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
  GraphicsCard:
   NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] [10de:0fd5] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device [106b:00f2]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-19 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64+mac (20140417)
  MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro10,1
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=3d5a4115-5e15-4eca-bd1c-0bee2543a1cb ro quiet splash
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 12/21/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: MBP101.88Z.00EE.B03.1212211437
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
  dmi.board.name: Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F
  dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.board.version: MacBookPro10,1
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP101.88Z.00EE.B03.1212211437:bd12/21/2012:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro10,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-C3EC7CD22292981F:rvrMacBookPro10,1:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-C3EC7CD22292981F:
  dmi.product.name: MacBookPro10,1
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
  version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
  xserver.bootTime: Sun Apr 20 18:04:05 2014
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.errors: open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.outputs:
   
  xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1310316/+subscriptions


References