Upstream bug 784271 is duplicate of 774248, updating upstream task. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #774248 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774248
** Changed in: gedit Importance: High => Unknown ** Changed in: gedit Status: New => Unknown ** Changed in: gedit Remote watch: GNOME Bug Tracker #784271 => GNOME Bug Tracker #774248 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700092 Title: Text is tiny on HiDPI screens Status in gedit: Unknown Status in gedit package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am on Artful and have switched to GNOME as GNOME is the default desktop now and Unity shows some instabilities. I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2nd gen.) notebook with 14-inch QHD (2560x1440) display, so I am well over the good old 72-dpi CRT resolution. With some effort I have at least got a somewhat useful scaling of the GUI elements (esp. text size), mainly by getting into Unity7, getting into the Display Settings there, removing my ~1.5 scaling factor, returning to GNOME, installing the advanced settings manager (gnome- tweak-tool or so) and setting a scaling factor of ~2). Large text in accessibilty does not work for me as it makes the text huge. Unfortunately gedit does not bother on these efforts, it seems to be hard-coded to 72 dpi and so the text is tiny, unusable not only for people with vision problems. As this is the default text editor, which is often also called by web browsers to display text files, this needs to get fixed. Please take this into account ASAP, ideally on 17.10 at the latest. Please consider backporting upstream fixes for achieving this goal. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/1700092/+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