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I have been trying to track down which component/application is actually responsible for creating and maintaining /com/ubuntu/user-interface /scale-factor, but so far no luck. It seems to be related to Unity according to the few Google results I can see, so the question is whether a package failed to remove/move that setting or if OpenJDK should change what it looks at and/or in which order. OpenJDK currently looks for: - /com/ubuntu/user-interface/scale-factor - com/canonical/Unity/Interface/text-scaling-factor - org/gnome/desktop/interface/text-scaling-factor in that order, using the first one it finds. Weirdly enough it does not look for org/gnome/desktop/interface/scaling- factor. These changes were introduced by JDK-8149115 in commit http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/a3cc7e551a48 but neither the bug nor the Mailing list discussion state why they picked those items and in this particular order. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1765914 Title: Java windows and fonts are huge running in openjdk-11-jre Status in openjdk-lts package in Ubuntu: New Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: If I run a Java application with oracle-java-8 in an X session, the windows and fonts are all normal size. When I run the same application with openjdk-11-jre, everything is scaled up to double size (see attached image, which shows an application on the left running in Java 8 and the same application on the right running in Java 10 (from the package openjdk-11, not openjdk-10 for some reason). My normal screen layout is 1920x1080 with two screens, so the command "xrandr -q | awk -F'current' -F',' 'NR==1 {gsub("( |current)","");print $2}'" shows 1920x2160. One of the screens is 4K, so presumably Java *might* be detecting this and deciding it needs to double everything in size, but this is clearly an error since I'm not even using this mode. If I set the laptop to use a single external 1920x1080 monitor, it makes no difference - the Java applications are still double the size that they should be. There's no problem if I run in a Wayland session - the app windows run at a normal size whether in java 10 or 8. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: openjdk-11-jre 10.0.1+10-1ubuntu2 Uname: Linux 4.17.0-041700rc1-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Apr 21 14:12:39 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-16 (247 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) SourcePackage: openjdk-lts UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-11-17 (154 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-lts/+bug/1765914/+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
