eog (a GNOME image viewer) doesn't support HiDPI display.

Bug #1480207 reported by Shih-Yuan Lee
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Eye of GNOME
Confirmed
Medium
eog (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Ubuntu 14.04.2

Reproducible Steps:

1. Login Unity desktop environment.
2. Change the scale factor to 2 in Displays of System Settings.
3. Open any image by eog with 1:1 mode on HiDPI display, such Dell new XPS (2015) 13 9343.

Expected Result:

* The image won't become blurred.

Actual Result:

* The image becomes blurred.

Tags: hidpi
description: updated
Changed in eog:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in eog (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Chris Kankiewicz (phlak) wrote :

To add to this, the zoom factor is doubled (halved?). That is, when the zoom is set to 100% it's actually displaying the image at 200% resolution. To see the image at it's correct size the zoom must be set to 50%.

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Chris Kankiewicz (phlak) wrote :

And in case it wasn't clear, this is still an issue in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

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Chris Kankiewicz (phlak) wrote :

This is actually a GNOME issue, so commented on their issue tracker at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog/-/issues/63

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Upstream asked if someone having the issue could add the log from EOG_DEBUG=1

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