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Plan
Premium
Country
Singapore
Device
Huawei Matebook X PRO
Resolution : 3000x2000
Scaling Factor: 200%
Operating System
Ubuntu 18.10 (and 18.04)
My Question or Issue
The Spotify interface doesn't follow the scaling factor set in the Gnome Settings (200%). Everything is super small, as the rest of the desktop would appear at 100% scaling since the resolution is very high.
I think the problem is with Electron that is not correctly configured, and I found this Github topic for support: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/615
Attached is a screenshot comparing everything else VS Spotify
Solved! Go to Solution.
Repeatedly pressing
[CTRL] [=]
also did the job. You often see
[CTRL] [+]
being written on here, but in fact that doesn't work (involves holding the shift key). So, counter-intuitively, the three keyboard shortcuts for zooming in Spotify for Linux are:
[CTRL] [0] to return to default zoom
[CTRL] [-] to zoom out
[CTRL] [=] to zoom in
These keyboard shortcuts, once used, should persistently affect the zoom level. As it turns out, the Spotify front-end is highly optimised for high-DPI screens; they just haven't placed a suitable option in the settings, which is crazy if you ask me because it's 2018 and everyone's buying high-DPI monitors now.
They really, really need to sort this out.
Saying it's not an official product just doesn't wash; more than half the world's computers run on Linux for crying out loud.
I read your own thread and looked at your solution, which didn't work on the Snap version.
I edited the .desktop file to make your workaround work:
sudo vim /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/spotify_spotify.desktop
And changed
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/spotify_spotify.desktop /snap/bin/spotify %U
to
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/spotify_spotify.desktop /snap/bin/spotify --force-device-scale-factor=1.5 %U
Repeatedly pressing
[CTRL] [=]
also did the job. You often see
[CTRL] [+]
being written on here, but in fact that doesn't work (involves holding the shift key). So, counter-intuitively, the three keyboard shortcuts for zooming in Spotify for Linux are:
[CTRL] [0] to return to default zoom
[CTRL] [-] to zoom out
[CTRL] [=] to zoom in
These keyboard shortcuts, once used, should persistently affect the zoom level. As it turns out, the Spotify front-end is highly optimised for high-DPI screens; they just haven't placed a suitable option in the settings, which is crazy if you ask me because it's 2018 and everyone's buying high-DPI monitors now.
This is by far the user-friendliest solution. I had tried CTRL + and as you reported it doesn't work.
CTRL= instead works perfectly
Apart from adding an option under settings, I think it should read from system settings and apply the same zoom lvl.
BTW, thanks a lot for sharing this
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