With font scaling, text in the GNOME Shell search box is cut off

[Alexander Browne]

If you increase font scaling – either with Gnome Tweaks > Fonts > Scaling Factor or gsettings org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor – text in the GNOME Shell search box is cut off.

Text scaling can help with hidpi screens and is an accessibility feature.

I noticed this a while ago but I finally got around to testing it systematically in December with the then-current noble daily build and reported it upstream (https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/issues/4023). I today confirmed it's still present in an updated Noble install. The issue does not occur with the default GNOME/Adwaita Shell theme installed with gnome-session or other OSes like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed so it seems like a Yaru theme issue.

My upstream bug report (https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/issues/4023) has examples with screenshots.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: yaru-theme-gnome-shell 23.10.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.6.0-14.14-generic 6.6.3
Uname: Linux 6.6.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jan 31 12:03:33 2024
Dependencies:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-03-16 (321 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Alpha amd64 (20230310)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: yaru-theme
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2023-12-08 (54 days ago)

[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 1999320, 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.