SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install any kde based distro 2. Use Nvidia proprietary driver (450,455) 3. OBSERVED RESULT Some fonts too small to see anything If I open fonts and increase the size It will increase the other normal fonts And the system will be unusable. EXPECTED RESULT Normal behaviour like xfce or gnome that Fixed this on Ubuntu 20.04 SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: no! macOS: never. Linux/KDE Plasma: 5 latest (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: kde neon tried too KDE Frameworks Version: latest Qt Version:latest ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Ryzen 7 1700 GTX 1070 24 GB ram ASRock x370 sli killer I put as critical because I can't use Any kde distro because of that I tried everything to fix Changing scale etc doesn't work And I don't want use Mesa driver
Created attachment 132490 [details] BUG
I've experienced this regularly in the past with the nvidia driver, not only with Plasma as desktop. What worked for me was forcing the DPI to 96 in xorg.conf. see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg#Display_size_and_DPI In particular these lines: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "DPI" "96 x 96" EndSection
I will try that but I hope new releases of kde does that automatically if dpi is lower. I Prefer bigger than invisible
How I do that for Kde neon (ubuntu based) screen #0: dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (1626x914 millimeters) resolution: 30x30 dots per inch My screen returns 30x30
How I do that for Kde neon (ubuntu based) screen #0: dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (1626x914 millimeters) resolution: 30x30 dots per inch I tried the force dpi in the kde menu but it didnt work
I Found another bug: Sometimes the "Force DPI" Doesnt stay, if you change twice for example before rebooting. I highly suggest you guys making dpi 96 as default or make a pop-up with big font asking if resolution is correct or not, if not then it will go 96 DPI force.
just to complement here. Xubuntu 20.04 is the only one that I didnt get any problem, but I saw DPI forced to 96 at boot. I guess this should be the default config for kde too so new users like me doesnt have this "issue"
Well that won't work if your DPI is in fact higher than 96. :) Erik or Aaron, would either of you be able to investigate this?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #8) > Well that won't work if your DPI is in fact higher than 96. :) > > Erik or Aaron, would either of you be able to investigate this? it is not higher than 96, my xubuntu dpi is set forced on 96 by default. Also after trying several times to set dpi to 96 in kde it seems to work. That's why I think it should have come 96 dpi by default to avoid nvidia drivers problem now and in the future.
Why is this ticket confirmed? As far as I know, kwin doesn't determine the font size.
No, but we have seen similar graphical anomalies in QML-based software due to its use of an openGL rendering pipeline which goes through the GPU. It seems to happen with Nvidia hardware a lot more often than it does with Intel and AMD graphics hardware, for reasons that I do not know.
Previous comment provides no confirmation that the issue is in kwin; changing status.
Please only tag the Nvidia devs after investigation proves them to be at fault. We don't want to abuse their time.
This is most definitely not a kwin bug, but I'll leave here till we can move it. Please include output of : xrdb -q |& grep -i dpi ~/.config/kdeglobals xrandr -q
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!