Bug 105873 - Add option for disabling UI scaling
Summary: Add option for disabling UI scaling
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 101646
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.3.0.3 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Blocks: Options-Dialog
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Reported: 2017-02-09 08:23 UTC by swiftgeek
Modified: 2023-03-25 10:30 UTC (History)
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Description swiftgeek 2017-02-09 08:23:44 UTC
On typical ThinkPad X200T screen (125x127dpi 1280x800) LibreOffice UI enables icon/other UI elements scaling which makes every UI element way too large even on "small" setting (ie. even on small setting it scales up more than enough for finger use on touchscreen).

Current workaround would be to run libreoffice with SAL_FORCEDPI=120 (highest value that doesn't enable scaling) but that breaks ruler and document scaling

In my opinion it would be the best to have option that would simply disables UI scaling that happens on screens over 120dpi, especially since "extra large" still makes UI touch friendly.
Comment 1 Tomaz Vajngerl 2017-02-09 08:31:52 UTC
in 5.3 the UI scaling factor 1.5x has been added in between 96 and 192 (for Win and GEN/GTK2 backend). For some users this backfires so we need a way to work around the scaling factor only.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2018-02-10 03:33:04 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2021-08-31 03:54:46 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 eisa01 2023-03-25 08:08:00 UTC
This was actually removed according to https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101646#c47
Comment 5 swiftgeek 2023-03-25 09:06:04 UTC
@eisa01
I don't see why would it be "RESOLVED WORKSFORME"

the massive difference in toolbar icon sizes between:
SAL_FORCEDPI=120 libreoffice --writer
SAL_FORCEDPI=121 libreoffice --writer

is still here with libreoffice 7.5.1.2

And SAL_FORCEDPI still breaks ruler because it changes DPI
Comment 6 swiftgeek 2023-03-25 09:09:20 UTC
And to clarify `SAL_FORCEDPI=120 libreoffice --writer` still disables scaling
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2023-03-25 10:30:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 101646 ***