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Docmandu Jun 18, 2023 @ 9:48am
UI scaling on Linux isn't working very well
Got 2 machines, both 3840x2160 display size. On one machine, the UI is super tiny and it's almost impossible to read the fonts, can work around this by manually setting STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=2, while on the other machine everything is super big, no clue how to fix it on that machine.

I wonder why they don't just have an option in the settings of the client. There's something about size in the library settings, but that doesn't seem to do anything for the UI rendering. At least that would allow people to fix it locally on their machine, better fix would be that it "just works" ofcourse. Never had issues with the previous steam client.

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I can confirm this bug.

Previously, turning off the "Scale text and icons to match monitor settings" option would fix this, however, since the last update, it now seems that Steam completely ignores it.

Trying to use Steam like this is giving me a serious migraine, so whatever changes were recently made to UI scaling need to be rolled back. It's like trying to use Steam on a 640 x 480 display or something.

For reference, my specs are:
Debian 12 Bookworm
Openbox running on X11
2x 3840 x 2160 displays
AMD RX 5700 XT
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
64 GB DDR4
Altamont Jun 20, 2023 @ 9:01pm 
I'm experiencing what I perceive to be the same issue: Text and icons are too tiny for me to read, Steam Settings > Interface > "Scale text and icons to match monitor settings" setting does not appear to be honored.

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-72-generic
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12101004
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20230509.49499

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.105.17
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x2782
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 3
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Desktop Resolution: 8160 x 3997
Primary Display Size: 23.62" x 13.39" (27.13" diag), 60.0cm x 34.0cm (68.9cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 12282 MB
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