Bug#1064335: mutter-common: xwayland apps ignore scaling settings

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 1:18 AM Tamás Golubov <tamas.golubov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since the upgrade from 44.8-2 "legacy" apps that seem to use XWayland
> completely ignore the scaling settings. I have a 4K monitor and scaling set to
> 200%. When launching VLC, GIMP, synaptic, they appear very small, as they
> ignore the scaling settings. Changing scaling on the fly doesn't change
> anything, all other elements of the UI respond to the change but not the legacy
> apps. Session type is set to Wayland, if I change it in GDM to X11, the same
> behavior can be observed, but it's worse. When changing the scaling, the UI
> responds, but even the settings app itself doesn't.

This might actually be https://bugs.debian.org/1064438 which can be
fixed by installing gsettings-desktop-schemas from Unstable.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha