Bug#750011: gnome-tweak-tool: Windows Scaling Not Undoable

[Tran Tuan Minh]

Hi!

I have found out one solution. You simplify use shortcut for GNOME 
window ALT+F8 in order to move it freely. Then, focusing on your factor 
and rescaling it.

Cheers, Minh

On Sat, 31 May 2014 11:17:52 -0400 Dean Chia <peridox91 at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Package: gnome-tweak-tool
 > Version: 3.12.0-2
 > Severity: normal
 >
 > Dear Maintainer,
 >
 > I went to Tweak Tool --> Windows --> Windows Scaling to see what it 
would do. I
 > pressed "+" and it made my window scaling from 1 to 2. Problem was, 
because
 > everything was scaled, I was unable to undo what I did and rescale it 
back to
 > 1. My whole gnome session became practically unusable.
 >
 > My cursor and desktop did not match up, and I was unable to move my 
windows. I
 > could not reach with my mouse the menu item to rescale the Windows, 
so it was
 > essentially stuck at a scale of 2. This applied both to Gnome and Gnome
 > Classic.
 >
 > Luckily, I had XFCE to fallback to, and from there I opened 
gnome-tweak-tool to
 > rescale my windows back to 1. If all I had was gnome for my DE, then 
I would
 > have been in big trouble.
 >
 > I'm not sure how one would fix this, as this is actually quite a 
serious "bug."
 >
 > Would it be possible if you employed some kind of kill switch (like 
what you do
 > in Displays), where it would revert in 15-30 seconds to previous windows
 > scaling.
 >
 >
 >
 > -- System Information:
 > Debian Release: jessie/sid
 > APT prefers unstable
 > APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
 > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
 >
 > Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
 > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
 > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
 >
 > Versions of packages gnome-tweak-tool depends on:
 > ii gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 3.8.4-2
 > ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.12.2-1
 > ii gir1.2-notify-0.7 0.7.6-2
 > ii gnome-shell-common 3.8.4-8.1
 > ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.8.2-2
 > ii python 2.7.6-2
 > ii python-gi 3.12.1-1
 >
 > gnome-tweak-tool recommends no packages.
 >
 > gnome-tweak-tool suggests no packages.
 >
 > -- no debconf information
 >
 >