Display size detected incorrectly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mutter (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
qtbase-opensource-src (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
My external monitor is detected as 7" although it is 32". All applications which use Qt auto scaling have huge controls!
It seems like many users have the same problem (https:/
It seems not related to the display server, compositor or window manager since the problem appeared in Ubuntu 17.04 (Mir, Unity) as well es 18.04 (Mutter, Gnome). I tried it with both Wayland and X (on Wayland).
Further, it seems not related to graphics driver, since I personally use the open source driver with my internal Intel card, whereas someone else uses a proprietary Nvidia driver (https:/
If it is in the wrong category, please move it / add the corresponding packages.
If you need any further information to tackle the problem, just tell me!
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-05 (372 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
Package: qtbase-
PackageArchitec
Tags: bionic
Uname: Linux 4.18.7-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom davfs2 dip docker lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers video voice
_MarkForUpload: True
summary: |
- Display size detected wrongly + Display size detected incorrectly |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Expired → New |
Changed in qtbase-opensource-src (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Expired → Confirmed |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Broken auto-scaling is a bug in Qt. If your monitor is incorrectly detected as 7", there's probably also a kernel or X.org bug somewhere.