Re: High-DPI GNOME update: great progress, remaining issues

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Brion Vibber <brion pobox com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > On 24 February 2014 17:55, Brion Vibber <brion pobox com> wrote:
> > > The biggest oddity with GNOME proper I see is that the Shell's UI
> > > displays
> > > at half-size, like it's ignoring the scaling. I might just be setting
> > > the
> > > GDK_SCALE improperly though...
> >
> > nope: you'll need to use the CLUTTER_SCALE environment variable as
> > well for the shell to pick this up.
> >
> > though, to be fair, both GTK and Clutter should already pick up the
> > scaling factor from gnome-settings-daemon.
>
>
> Setting both GDK_SCALE=2 and CLUTTER_SCALE=2 seems to go a little wonky, at
> least in the VM environment (it scales up the things that were already
> scaled, too!)...

That's expected things do not work this way. You have to actually set
the xsetting instead of using the environment variable.
There is a gesettings key in org.gnome.desktop.interface called
"scale-factor" try setting this one to "2"