Bug 357815

Summary:	Scaling setting does not take effect on next logout
Product:	[Plasma] KScreen	Reporter:	Robin Green <greenrd>
Component:	kcm	Assignee:	Daniel Vrátil <dvratil>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	major	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.5.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Robin Green 2016-01-10 21:17:44 UTC

I changed the scaling setting in system settings to 2, and then by good fortune, plasmashell crashed, at which point I saw my changes take effect. However, after I logged out and logged in again, plasmashell had reverted to non-scaled fonts. To workaround this, it is necessary to change the scaling setting again, to a different value (2.2 did not work - bizarrely, it only made the problem worse, not better - but 2.5 and 1.5 did).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change scaling setting to 2 in kscreen kcm
2. Crash or kill plasmashell to restart it
3. Log out
4. Log in again (as the same user)

Actual Results:  
task manager has old unscaled fonts again

Expected Results:  
task manager font scaling should have been preserved

I have increased the panel height - not sure if that's relevant.

Workaround is as stated above - change scaling setting to something else and then restart plasmashell (without logging in and out!)

Comment 1 Robin Green 2016-01-10 21:20:26 UTC

Also possibly relevant fact: I had already previously set the font scaling to 2, because I didn't know about the scaling settings dialog.

Comment 2 Robin Green 2016-01-16 12:15:53 UTC

Also, a strange fact worthy of note: I track my dot files using homeshick and git, and I can clearly see that now that I've set my scaling factor back to 2 and restarted plasmashell, in .config/startupconfig, it's still set to 1.5. This happens every time - it shows the old value.

Comment 3 Robin Green 2016-02-22 14:03:47 UTC

This occurred because I had previously tried setting the "force font DPI", and due to some out-of-date comment I found on the internet, I thought it had no additional effect, and left it enabled.