[arch-general] New LXQt (1.0.0) with big text size, affecting other Qt apps

[Uwe Sauter]

Am 11.11.21 um 01:47 schrieb Javier via arch-general:
> On 11/10/21 18:41, Javier via arch-general wrote:
>> On 11/10/21 18:38, Javier via arch-general wrote:
>>> Hello !
>>>
>>> I've been using LXQt for some time now (years), and with Today's Arch upgrade, which included a
>>> LXQt upgrade 0.17.0-1 -> 1.0.0-1, everything was showing app really big, from LXQt own text
>>> (menus, icons, widgets, etc) to other apps.  The only work around I found was to reduce the font
>>> size on LXQt's preferences, and also on Qterminal, I had to change it from like 18 to 10 on
>>> Qterminal, and from 16 to 10 on LXQt itself.  I still see other apps bigger than what they used
>>> to be, and in particular the apps' toolbar became wider, and the border surrounding Qt apps
>>> became wider (to the point it's annoying).
>>>
>>> It's not about manipulating QT_SCALE_FACTOR + QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR, and the like, because
>>> that's to make things bigger when they look way to small and unreadable.  Actually by setting
>>> QT_SCALE_FACTOR to 1, its the same behavior as not setting any variable, and lower than 0 values
>>> don't really work on Qt (I tried, and the results are really weird, non functional to say the
>>> least).
>>>
>>> Have other lxqt users experienced the same on Arch?  Would it be an Arch building and packaging
>>> issue?  Or this is totally an upstream thing?
>>>
>>> Thanks !
>>
>>
>> Forgot to mention the screen resolution is 1920x1080, on an EliteBook laptop (15" screen I believe).
>>
> 
> Also forgot to mention I use KWin as compositor/WM, and KVantum (Materia Dark) for theming and
> styling...
> 

I'm experiencing the same with Mate. FullHD on 24" display shows fonts about twice the normal size.

The workaround I found (not reboot safe) is to open the display settings and force a scaling factor
of 100%. Scaling factor "auto" won't do any good.