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bug #60914: Default UI is too small to read on high DPI screens

Submitter:  Nate Graham <ngraham>
Submitted:  Mon 12 Jul 2021 08:26:36 PM UTC
Votes: 1
 
Category:  User Interface Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Hardware-specific
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  other
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Fri 29 Nov 2024 11:54:04 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Apologies — just checked, and `auto` doesn't equate to my native resolution on my desktop display, but does on my laptop. I still have to hardcode `GRUB_GFXMODE=2560x1440` on the PC, which I presume is a deliberate choice by RedHat to attempt to remediate what `#comment0` describes (albeit poorly, since it doesn't apply to the higher-resolution laptop display). The rest still stands, of course.

Mr. Beedell, Roke JL (RJLB) <rokejulianlockh>
Fri 29 Nov 2024 10:20:39 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Can confirm that this still occurs in `grub2-2.12-15.fc41.src.rpm` (albeit to a lesser extent, due to my inferior display resolution). I am also using the Fedora 41 KDE Spin. Specifically, `GRUB_GFXMODE=auto` equates to `GRUB_GFXMODE=2560x1440` (1:1), which at [⪆ 83 DPI/PPI][2] is quite small. It's similar by default on my Framework 16 laptop, which isn't a great look.

This has been extensively discussed at [`discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/126848/19`][1], if of use.

[1]: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/boot-experience-hidpi-and-fractional-scaling/126848/19
[2]: https://linux-hardware.org/?id=eisa:aoc-aoc3279&hwid=084505ed645f

Mr. Beedell, Roke JL (RJLB) <rokejulianlockh>
Mon 12 Jul 2021 08:26:36 PM UTC, original submission:  

I am using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga laptop with a 3820x2160 14" screen. I run Fedora 34 with KDE Plasma and the UI scaled to 200%; GNOME and other DEs have similar functionality to scale the UI. However the GRUB screen is not scaled in this way. As a result, any text and interactive UI elements are almost unreadably small. See the attached screen screenshot for an example.

The grub2 version is 2.06.

I originally filed this issue on Fedora's bug tracker (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964673), but they said it was an upstream issue, so I am filing this bug here.

I did not have this issue on openSUSE Tumbleweed because the UI is different there; perhaps they override the default theme to have larger text.

Nate Graham <ngraham>

 

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file #51664:  UI@too@small.jpg added by ngraham (2MiB - image/jpeg - UI too small to read)

 

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