Yeah, this is a known issue, ideally the driver should advertize weather the randr transformations are supported or not, and nvidia driver says so, while isn't true actually.
So, we'd need to probably filter out nvidia from this, or wait nvidia to fix this. Something like this https://askubuntu.com/questions/704503/scale-2x2-in- xrandr-causes-the-monitor-to-not-display-anything has some solutions, but I had nothing like that working in my system. If you can get that working, then probably we can figure out another solution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1822478 Title: [nvidia] All on screen text is tiny. Icons are normal size but text is nearly unreadable. Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-418 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Recently upgraded to Disco beta. Running a 1080p screen at 100% scaling. uname -a : Linux giga 5.0.0-8-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 12 21:58:11 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Graphics card : GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2 Drivers version: Nvidia-Driver-418 Not 100% sure this is a Gnome-Shell issue (Not sure if this is the correct package to log it against) or an "Idiot User" issue. As I've upgraded this system for the past 3 releases (18.02, 18.10 & 19.04 beta) without a clean install between upgrades. When I reboot, all on screen text is tiny. Icons are normal size but text is nearly unreadable. This also effects any text input boxes (i.e. user password) Text in "Show Applications" screen is also effected. *Workaroud* Only work around for the desktop is to go in to "Settings" then "Devices" then Adjust the scaling to 200%, hit Apply, then press "Revert Changes", this resets the scaling to normal. This does not fix the scaling in the "Show Applications" screen. Attached images in Scaling_Issues.zip : Image of text scaling after reboot : Scaling_Small.png Image after the "workaround" to show how it should look like: Scaling_Normal.png Image of "Show Applications" screen which is still effected : Applications_Small.png ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.32.0-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-8.9-generic 5.0.1 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu23 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Mar 31 16:00:21 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.shell' b'app-picker-view' b'uint32 1' b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' redacted by apport b'org.gnome.shell' b'enabled-extensions' b"['ubuntu-d...@ubuntu.com', 'ubuntu-appindicat...@ubuntu.com', 'openweather-extens...@jenslody.de', 'desktop-icons@csoriano']" b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-07-09 (264 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-03-29 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1822478/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
