Window scaling factor changes erratically on a single display

Bug #1830514 reported by Landon R. Brainard
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mutter (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When using multiple display scales for displays with different DPIs, resizing windows may cause windows to temporarily forget which display's scale they're supposed to be using.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gdm3 3.32.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-15.16-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat May 25 20:58:12 2019
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-09 (16 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Landon R. Brainard (landonbrainard) wrote :
summary: - Display scaling problems when resizing windows
+ Window scaling factor changes erratically on a single display
affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu) → mutter (Ubuntu)
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) reached end-of-life on January 23, 2020.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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