High-DPI totally broken now?

[Orum]

This latest update seems to have totally broken support for high DPI displays. "Scale text and icons to match monitor size" does nothing now. What the hell?! Does Valve even test things before they release?

EDIT: Valve seems to have fixed it with a recent Steam update, and you no longer need the "-forcedesktopscaling" option.

[SoniXX]

i cannot even right click on the systray icon anymore when i use high dpi

[frobnic8]

LIkewise for me. 4k on Linux Mint and everything is miniscule and unreadable.

[UnstoppableOnion]

Using Ubuntu cannot see a thing too small to read. 50" 4k.

[this but ironically]

4k on pop_os, I'm blind as hell send help

[Morkbrand]

This "We have steam at home"-lookin' ass...

[Sentient Shadow]

The update totally broke scaling on Linux . Text is now microscopic on 4K 24" monitors. It always looked great before. At least the new client uses the whole screen in the library section. The other sections are even worse. Everything is as tiny AND only displayed on a narrow band down the center of the screen--2/3 of the screen is empty wasted space.

Nice how Steam apparently didn't even bother to test the Linux client before release.

[Arazil]

The 4K (high DPI) scaling bug on Linux is a known issue from mid February 2023 and is currently being tracked on Github at: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9209

[Rei Ayanami]

So this update broke features, uses exorbitant amounts of resources, is glitchy, and has giant gaps of horizontal screen space like a mobile phone simulator. We are expected to LIKE this?? Absolute garbage, I had to write this using Shinji's magnifying glass.

[Orum]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

found the workaround ... add the following to the end of the steam desktop shortcut command line:

-forcedesktopscaling 2

Thanks, this does scale the UI.

Unfortunately there's still some major glitches going on, such as it being very difficult to click and drag the window from the title bar, and the drop-down menus in general being glitchy (especially if you leave one open while dragging the window around). They can just float all over, and aren't tethered to their original position within the steam window. This happens even without the scaling though, so it's just some other bug with the new UI.

[Perrin]

I have a normal monitor and all the text is blurry. What were they thinking?

[Ruri]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

found the workaround ... add the following to the end of the steam desktop shortcut command line:

-forcedesktopscaling 2

for a quick test in linux just start steam by typing the following in a terminal session:

steam -forcedesktopscaling 2

It successfully solves the DPI scale problem on Linux.

[sfnhltb]

This makes things readable (on my older win 8.1 4k system, haven't updated this system yet), but it breaks the menus as although the text inside them is resized they appear in the same location/size as they would have without this fix, so if I try to go to Community the Discussions, I can see Hom Discussi and the top half of Worksh but the menu is between Store and Library so I can't get the mouse to those options without triggering something else, so the only menu options I can get to are the first 3 under Store, and while more of the top bar menus can be accessed, only the first half of them are available due to the text size being bigger than the menu expects.

[TitiSinistru]

While the CLI solution works, this is still unacceptable to even have to look it up. Why is it so hard to just give us a slider with %? The Window size is whatever it is, just scale it to the desired percentage.

I'm running Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.1 with a 4k 27 inch screen. System scaling is set to 200% yet by default none of the options seem to work.

PLEASE PLEASE! give us a slider for the UI.

[Ruri]

Originally posted by TitiSinistru:

While the CLI solution works, this is still unacceptable to even have to look it up. Why is it so hard to just give us a slider with %? The Window size is whatever it is, just scale it to the desired percentage.

I'm running Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.1 with a 4k 27 inch screen. System scaling is set to 200% yet by default none of the options seem to work.

PLEASE PLEASE! give us a slider for the UI.

You can add this to the shortcut of Steam, so you don't have to start it from the command line every time.

#In Debian, it is located at "/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop".
Exec=/usr/bin/steam %U -forcedesktopscaling 2

[Caff]

Originally posted by Orum:

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

found the workaround ... add the following to the end of the steam desktop shortcut command line:

-forcedesktopscaling 2

Thanks, this does scale the UI.

Unfortunately there's still some major glitches going on, such as it being very difficult to click and drag the window from the title bar, and the drop-down menus in general being glitchy (especially if you leave one open while dragging the window around). They can just float all over, and aren't tethered to their original position within the steam window. This happens even without the scaling though, so it's just some other bug with the new UI.

Valve seems to have no issue rolling out broken software outside the beta channel at this point. I'd rather receive the update later if it's that broken. Linux client used to be very stable. Also maximising through the window manager (every WM I tested) and not the inbuilt maximise button makes web views turn completely black until you switch tabs.