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#1 2016-07-29 16:18:15
- axfelix
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some Gnome 3.20 application windows larger every time I open them
Bit of a strange problem -- since going to 3.20 (possible also 3.18, can't remember), some Gnome application windows are about 10-20% larger every time I open them. Having to shrink them down again every time is a bit of a pain...
The two really irritating ones are Geary and Evince. Others, like Corebird and Nautilus, do not have this problem. These are all Gtk3 so I'm not sure what the limiting factor is. Have tried building Geary from AUR git and it still didn't seem to solve the problem.
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#2 2016-07-30 15:37:22
- Awebb
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Re: some Gnome 3.20 application windows larger every time I open them
Explain, what exactly you mean by "larger". Window dimensions? Scaling? What?
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#3 2016-07-30 15:56:21
- axfelix
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Re: some Gnome 3.20 application windows larger every time I open them
Window dimensions. I'm assuming this is some kind of edge case bug in the theme engine components that were rewritten for 3.20, because I have the desktop configured to 1.25 scale in tweak tool, and am using Arc rather than Adwaita.
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#4 2016-07-30 15:58:50
- Awebb
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Re: some Gnome 3.20 application windows larger every time I open them
You could use xwininfo to see, if it's really exactly 25%. That would make sense.
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#5 2016-07-30 16:19:42
- axfelix
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Re: some Gnome 3.20 application windows larger every time I open them
Yeah, I'm just surprised that a core application like evince would have this issue -- opening three PDFs in a row makes each window progressively bigger than the last. I think using this form of non-integer DPI scaling (in addition to the 1.25 scale setting, I also have some font sizes increased) must be quite rare but it's definitely the best fit for my screen. I've noticed it's also very poorly supported under Wayland, which leaps right up to a 2x scale (on a ~190 DPI notebook) for everything including the mouse cursor, which doesn't look or work well at all.
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