This doesn't seem an unity bug, but rather a gtk apps issue... Unity- Control-Center seems to scale its ui correctly, and so does unity.
The only elements that are not scaling here are external gtk apps, which doesn't seem to respect gtk settings. Plase provide the values you get from: gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor ** Also affects: unity Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: unity Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: unity Assignee: (unassigned) => Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314939 Title: Some elements in UI don't honor UI scale settings anymore Status in Unity: Incomplete Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: My laptop is connected to an external monitor which I use as primary display. After few normal routines of suspend and wakeup everyday, I notice some UI elements in Unity don't respect UI scale settings anymore when my laptop wakes up and resume my login session and Unity even ignore the settings completely when I adjust around the UI scale in Display applet. Please see screenshot links below http://i.imgur.com/y1ZXmCL.png http://i.imgur.com/wCmtNZ2.png http://i.imgur.com/XVbshir.png http://i.imgur.com/7va9taj.png ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu May 1 15:51:33 2014 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: trusty DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: vboxhost, 4.3.10, 3.13.0-24-generic, i686: installed EcryptfsInUse: Yes GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a001] Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a001] InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-01 (29 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily i386 (20140331) MachineType: Intel Corporation Pine Trail - M CRB ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=cb7acec2-e0c5-4138-beb9-da46e06eaa8e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 07/29/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD dmi.bios.version: 6.00 dmi.board.asset.tag: PTL Nanjing dmi.board.name: Pine Trail - M CRB dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation dmi.board.version: Revision A dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 1 dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvr6.00:bd07/29/2010:svnIntelCorporation:pnPineTrail-MCRB:pvrRevisionA:rvnIntelCorporation:rnPineTrail-MCRB:rvrRevisionA:cvnNoEnclosure:ct1:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: Pine Trail - M CRB dmi.product.version: Revision A dmi.sys.vendor: Intel Corporation version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0-4ubuntu5 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0-4ubuntu5 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2 xserver.bootTime: Tue Apr 29 20:07:51 2014 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: product id 268 vendor ACR xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1314939/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp