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wviana

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2021-09-03

Posts: 40

Re: Gnome Resolution and Scaling broke after testing DEs

After always running

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "[{'Gdk/WindowScalingFactor', <1>}]"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 1

When swaping HiDPI and regular monitors. I finally reset those values using

gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor
gsettings reset org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides

Looks like this made things more automatic.

One thing I was noticing was that GDM was always showing kind of expanding to multiple displays, so login image and password field were always offset to right of buit-in display.

It was also always showing and inexistent display in gnome-settings.
Booting into LTS kernel made GDM shows entirely just in built-in display with user and password field in center.

This may be something related to nvidia driver. I'm using nvidia-470xx-dkms.
Also was trying to configure just built-in or just external in gnome display settings made things worse.
Now just built-in display works, when I plug external it does not allow to enable external anymore, by checking nvidia-settings looks like it pops in and out external display.

Any tips to total reset xorg nvidia or whatever display settings?
Non dkms drivers may be better or should be just the same?

seth

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From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,101

Re: Gnome Resolution and Scaling broke after testing DEs

"just the same"
Your session hardly has any impact on the nvidia driver config except for maybe "nvidia-settings -l" loading ~/.nvidia-settings-rc (but that should™ not happen automagically either, though maybe gnome does)

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