Dear Maintainer,

I went to Tweak Tool --> Windows --> Windows Scaling to see what it would do. I
pressed "+" and it made my window scaling from 1 to 2. Problem was, because
everything was scaled, I was unable to undo what I did and rescale it back to
1. My whole gnome session became practically unusable.

My cursor and desktop did not match up, and I was unable to move my windows. I
could not reach with my mouse the menu item to rescale the Windows, so it was
essentially stuck at a scale of 2. This applied both to Gnome and Gnome
Classic.

Luckily, I had XFCE to fallback to, and from there I opened gnome-tweak-tool to
rescale my windows back to 1. If all I had was gnome for my DE, then I would
have been in big trouble.

I'm not sure how one would fix this, as this is actually quite a serious "bug."

Would it be possible if you employed some kind of kill switch (like what you do
in Displays), where it would revert in 15-30 seconds to previous windows
scaling.

I did the exact same thing on a recently-upgraded Jessie installation
and got the exact same results.  I agree that there should be some kind
of timeout like the one for changing display resolution, and for the
same reason: unwittingly changing the setting to something inappropriate
can make it very difficult to change it back to something sane.

For anyone else who ends up in this situation, I bet there's a gsettings
command that could be run via a virtual terminal, but I don't know the
schema or key.  Something like:

but replace "org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor" with the right
schema and key (because I'm pretty sure that isn't it, although it may
look like it).  Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can elaborate (or fix
the bug)...

Thanks,
Alex Robbins

I accidently changed the setting too and was unable, in the first place, to revert my change.... However I found a workaround:

In the tweak-tool window, click the magnifier icon (search option), then input ’scaling’ in the text field. That will display only options for which the name matches the word ‘scaling’. Now click the entry Windows from the menu... then the option Window Scaling will be located up the content pane and I could edit it back to 1.



I search for that option in dconf-editor but didn’t see it.... does someone know whether this option is accessible from dconf?



Cheers

Raphael

Hi!

I have found out one solution. You simplify use shortcut for GNOME
window ALT+F8 in order to move it freely. Then, focusing on your factor
and rescaling it.

Cheers, Minh

On Sat, 31 May 2014 11:17:52 -0400 Dean Chia <peridox91@gmail.com> wrote:
 > Package: gnome-tweak-tool
 > Version: 3.12.0-2
 > Severity: normal
 >
 > Dear Maintainer,
 >
 > I went to Tweak Tool --> Windows --> Windows Scaling to see what it
would do. I
 > pressed "+" and it made my window scaling from 1 to 2. Problem was,
because
 > everything was scaled, I was unable to undo what I did and rescale it
back to
 > 1. My whole gnome session became practically unusable.
 >
 > My cursor and desktop did not match up, and I was unable to move my
windows. I
 > could not reach with my mouse the menu item to rescale the Windows,
so it was
 > essentially stuck at a scale of 2. This applied both to Gnome and Gnome
 > Classic.
 >
 > Luckily, I had XFCE to fallback to, and from there I opened
gnome-tweak-tool to
 > rescale my windows back to 1. If all I had was gnome for my DE, then
I would
 > have been in big trouble.
 >
 > I'm not sure how one would fix this, as this is actually quite a
serious "bug."
 >
 > Would it be possible if you employed some kind of kill switch (like
what you do
 > in Displays), where it would revert in 15-30 seconds to previous windows
 > scaling.
 >
 >
 >
 > -- System Information:
 > Debian Release: jessie/sid
 > APT prefers unstable
 > APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
 > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
 >
 > Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
 > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
 > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
 >
 > Versions of packages gnome-tweak-tool depends on:
 > ii gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 3.8.4-2
 > ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.12.2-1
 > ii gir1.2-notify-0.7 0.7.6-2
 > ii gnome-shell-common 3.8.4-8.1
 > ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.8.2-2
 > ii python 2.7.6-2
 > ii python-gi 3.12.1-1
 >
 > gnome-tweak-tool recommends no packages.
 >
 > gnome-tweak-tool suggests no packages.
 >
 > -- no debconf information
 >
 >

For anyone struggling with this one in the future the key is:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides
{'Gdk/WindowScalingFactor': <1>}
01:54:16 [erick@lenobot:~]
$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides
{'Gdk/WindowScalingFactor': <2>}

Debian Jessie using Gnome Classic.

I scaled by 2 and had the same issue.
I also closed the gnome tweak tool so when I re-opened it I was no longer
still on the 'windows' section.

My solution was to click on a menu item that was visible, then use arrow
keys to navigate the menu items until I reached 'windows', then I used ctrl
+ f (find text) and typed 'scale'. The scale item was brought into view and
I was able to change scaling back to 1.0

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