{"id":6081,"date":"2021-10-30T14:03:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2021-10-30T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T14:03:04","slug":"linux-steam-turning-off-dpiscaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6081","title":{"rendered":"Linux Steam: Turning Off DPIScaling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steam under Linux (and probably other environments too but I&#8217;ve never run it elsewhere) has a nice feature to enlarge text on high dpi displays. Unfortunately when <em>I<\/em> enable it, the pop-up windows (such as the settings window) will scroll down the screen repeatedly disappearing from view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is very inconvenient and makes it quite tricky to turn the feature back off again. Now this <em>could<\/em> be a problem with the Awesome window manager or with the settings that I use (although Steam seems to be the only application with this issue), but I&#8217;m not interested enough to try and fix the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just want to change the setting back to something that may be small and squashed but at least works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Find the <em>~\/.steam\/registry.vdf<\/em> file. <\/li><li>Edit with a text editor and search for &#8220;DPIScaling&#8221; :-<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\u00bb grep DPIScaling registry.vdf \n\t\t\t\t\t\"DPIScaling\"\t\t\"1\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>And change the &#8220;1&#8221; to a &#8220;0&#8221;, and restart Steam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-04-03-about-to-break.jpeg?resize=695%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-04-03-about-to-break.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-04-03-about-to-break.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-04-03-about-to-break.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-04-03-about-to-break.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1151&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-04-03-about-to-break.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1535&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-04-03-about-to-break.jpeg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption>About To Break<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam under Linux (and probably other environments too but I&#8217;ve never run it elsewhere) has a nice feature to enlarge text on high dpi displays. Unfortunately when I enable it, the pop-up windows (such as the settings window) will scroll down the screen repeatedly disappearing from view. 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