Problems with windows and different scales on multi-display configuration

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Hi,

I’m using Fedora 38 with GNOME 44.2 and Wayland.

I have 2 screens:

  1. 2880x1800 scale 200%
  2. 2560x1440 scale 100%

I have noticed that with different applications (Vivaldi Browser, Spotify, Intelij IDEA, VSCodium…) when switching them to another screen, the scale does not readjust, it stays the same (making both the application and the cursor when hovering over the application suffer an incredible zoom).

Also, some windows, when opening other windows from these, resize for no reason. Also, some windows on opening show a disproportionate size for the screen or half a window is out of the screen.

Finally, I have also detected that in VSCodium, although the whole interface has the dark theme, the menus (which I suppose it detects directly from the OS window manager) are still in light theme, even if the OS theme is dark.

I have recently installed Fedora for the first time and am looking to learn and fix what I can little by little.

I would like to know if these are bugs, problems that I can fix or if it is just not developed as it should be.

I’m also new here, so I accept advice on praxis and ways to do in the forum.

Thanks :grin:

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Welcome to Fedora @c0min0 ,

I’m not a fan of scaling. Have you tried just to resize the fonts to check if you can see it better on both screens?

You have to install the application gnome-tweaks. There under Fonts you can set the size.

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The problem is that I need two different sizes for each monitor as they have very different sizes, and with this solution I would be in the same situation. Besides, the size of the windows bar and the cursor would still be disproportionate.

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The cursor size you can change easily and the Windows bar gets bigger as if you also resize the font of it.

By the way, I just saw, that with the tweak tool you also have a Scaling Factor where you can increase in smaller steps.

Also with the Tweak tool, try to change the Appearance > Legacy Applications, and set there the dark theme you are using.

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Sorry, but tweak tool affects to all displays, and I need different configuration for everyone. And Legacy Applications in dark theme also change apps that works fine (like Firefox), and I want this applications to change like OS theme.

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I try to keep this in mind.

Did you install them as Flatpak? Problem is I can not test your setup, I just have one wide screen. If I put it on 200% it looks terrible big. I can imagine that you get things mixed up with such a setup.

Please give us more infos about your setup. Install inxi and post us the info of inxi -Fzx
You can post it as pre-formated text </>

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Yes, I install as flatpak.

System:
  Kernel: 6.3.7-200.fc38.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.39-9.fc38 Desktop: GNOME v: 44.2 Distro: Fedora release 38 (Thirty
    Eight)
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: LENOVO product: 82LU v: Yoga 9 14IAP7
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76461 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: HNCN43WW date: 12/26/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 53.9 Wh (74.9%) condition: 72.0/75.0 Wh (96.0%)
    volts: 16.5 min: 15.5 model: Celxpert L21C4PH0 status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 14-core (6-mt/8-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1280P bits: 64
    type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake rev: 3 cache: L1: 1.2 MiB L2: 11.5 MiB
    L3: 24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1854 high: 2000 min/max: 400/4700:4800:3600 cores:
    1: 2000 2: 2000 3: 2000 4: 2000 5: 2000 6: 2000 7: 2000 8: 2000 9: 453
    10: 2000 11: 642 12: 2000 13: 2000 14: 2000 15: 2000 16: 2000 17: 2000
    18: 2000 19: 2000 20: 2000 bogomips: 79872
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-12.2 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech Integrated RGB Camera driver: uvcvideo
    type: USB bus-ID: 3-8:3
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 22.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 2880x1800~90Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.2 renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  API: ALSA v: k6.3.7-200.fc38.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.71 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 3-10:4
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 18.54 GiB (3.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SanDisk model: SKHynix HFS512GEJ9X115N
    size: 476.94 GiB temp: 38.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 124 GiB used: 18.17 GiB (14.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 297.5 MiB (30.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 80.1 MiB (31.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 124 GiB used: 18.17 GiB (14.7%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 441 Uptime: 32m Memory: available: 15.33 GiB
  used: 4.66 GiB (30.4%) Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: N/A
  Packages: 26 note: see --rpm Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 inxi: 3.3.27

I have continued my research and have isolated the problem to window sizes. I will tell you more:

What happens?

When I open a window, it opens with an unusual size (smaller than usual). And when it loses the focus or when you try to change the size, the window changes the size it had when it was opened (it doesn’t have to be the correct one).

Once it has undergone this resizing, the problem does not persist.

When does it happen?

  • When opening a new window and switching windows (i.e. losing window focus).

  • When a window opens another window (happens to the first one, which also loses focus).

  • When you try to resize the window for the first time.

These three cases happen as long as the window has not faced any of these situations before (it means, when you change its initial size, it does not happen again).

In which situation does it happen?

After testing different cases I can confirm that this problem only occurs, in my case (two screens, 1- 2880x1800 16:10, 2- 2560x1440 16:9) when the two monitors have a different scaling, it doesn’t matter which of the two has the higher percentage.

Depending on the configuration of the position of the screens, the problem occurs on one or the other.

The following are the casuistries detected (note that the screen number refers to the nomenclature used in this text, not to the screen number of the operating system):

  • If screen 1 is below screen 2, the problem occurs on screen 1.

  • If screen 1 is above screen 2, the problem occurs on screen 2.

  • If screen 1 is to the left of screen 2, the problem occurs on screen 2.

  • If screen 1 is to the right of screen 2, the problem occurs in screen 1.

These tests have been done running the terminal and the extension manager, but it also happens with other windows.

In the case of the terminal the strange size happens as soon as the window appears. In the case of the extension manager when a configuration is opened in a new window, it happens to the original extension manager window.

With other aspect ratios it also happens.

I have checked the problem on Fedora 38 as well as on Debian 13 and it happens on both.

I don’t know what to do in these situations, I guess report the bug. But I don’t know how or where, to be honest.