org.gnome.desktop.interface.scaling-factor is ignored

[Timothy]

I have a HiDPI screen and so have org.gnome.desktop.interface.scaling-factor set to 2 in gsettings so that everything isn't super tiny.

$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor
uint32 2

This has always work perfectly. That is, until this last round of updates on the artful daily. After I ran apt upgrade this morning (first time it like a week maybe?) scaling-factor seems to be ignored; everything is tiny again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-13.14-generic 4.12.10
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Sep 17 12:23:22 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-18 (60 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170705)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1713323, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.