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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jan 2017
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OS: Linux
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Type: Bug



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UI fonts too small on very low DPI screens

Project Member Reported by chrishtr@chromium.org, Nov 9 2016

Issue description

https://codereview.chromium.org/2441043002 caused the tab titles on
windows on my machine to get way too small. The font size reduces by
a factor of more than 2.

I can provide monitor stats if you need them.
 

Comment 1 by osh...@chromium.org, Nov 10 2016

Cc: est...@chromium.org
What's your font scale (Check if Settings -> Display have it) ?
Do you mean the font size under "web content"? Here is what it says:

Font size: medium
Page zoom: 100%

Changing the font size above does not affect the bad font sizes in the tab title
or other Aura elements.

Comment 3 by osh...@chromium.org, Nov 10 2016

No, the setting on your linux desktop.
In Settings > Display, I had:

* Scale for menu and title bars: 0.75
* Scale all window contents to match: "display with smallest controls"

I have a two-monitor setup (30" + 24"). It seems that impacted the output. When I changed
"scale all window contents to match" to "display with largest controls" I got back the expected font
size. Same if I changed "scale for menu and title bars" to 1.0.

Comment 5 by osh...@chromium.org, Nov 11 2016

> * Scale for menu and title bars: 0.75

That's the reason why you get smaller fonts. Even though it says menu/title bars, it changes the gtk's font scale, so it will also make texts in buttons, terminals or even icons (and whatever that uses this value) smaller.

Did you intentionally change this value? Or will 1.0 work for you?


1.0 works fine for me. I don't remember when I set 0.75..

Comment 7 by osh...@chromium.org, Nov 11 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
Thanks, closing.
Status: Assigned (was: WontFix)
The change just made it to the dev channel. Working via Chrome remote desktop
today, the fonts are definitely too small. Significantly smaller than those
at the top of the Terminal app or Sublime, for example. And in remote desktop
mode, there is no option under Settings > Display to increase font size, for
some reason.
Please include the version number, screenshot and also the output of xpyinfo.

If your Display settings does not have scale, try gnome-teak-tool, Fonts -> Scaling Factor. Make sure you have 1.0 there.
Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
Just checked again, and now it seems ok...closing.

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