Issues with HiDPI / Scaling 200%

Budgie Desktop
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I am running Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 on my laptop. There are some minor issues when I set scaling to 200%.

  • When positioned to the right the panel overlaps maximized windows (so you can’t actually use it on the right side).
  • Icons in the panel widgets “Task List” and “Workspace Switcher” appear blurry.
  • Screenshots (taken with gnome-screenshot) do only contain the upper left quarter of the screen. The other three quarters are simply black. This only occurs when I capture the whole screen.

All three issues only appear with scaling set to 200%. In standard (100%) mode everything is OK.

Can anyone confirm and/or is facing additional issues? Can anyone help?

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Ok. For the right panel overlap that sounds like a bug.

Please create an issue upstream

For the tasklist icon i am not surprised. It is likely to be rewritten soonish. The recommendation is to use the icon-tasklist applet

For the workspace switcher please raise an issue upstream. The work around is to use the default switcher applet we include out of the box called budgie-visualspace-applet

For gnome-screenshot … yep can confirm. It is no longer being developed by gnome. It will be replaced in 22.10 with a native budgie implementation. The workaround for 22.04 is to use the budgie-screenshot -applet or another app such as flameshot

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Please test the upstream solution for the right panel fix that will be ready in 12hrs from this message. Use the PPA

ppa:ubuntubudgie-dev/budgie-desktop-test

Remember to purge the PPA after testing to return back to the main repo version.

Let me know how things work.

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Works as expected. Thank you!

5

Excellent.

So if you want this released officially please can you file a bug report on launchpad and help test the official package when Canonical requests you to-do.

To file a bug report … make sure you have purged the ppa then run in a terminal

ubuntu-bug budgie-desktop
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Sorry I’ve been a quite busy lately. I would now like to resume the topic. Is it still relevant? Then I would send the bug report now?

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yep - if you would like to get this officially released I need you to file a bug report … and more importantly help testing when Canonical requests to test the official fix.