X2Go Bug report logs - #913
Inaccurate scaling of dialog boxes and fonts for large DPI screen in Windows 10

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Package: x2goclient; Maintainer for x2goclient is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goclient is src:x2goclient.

Reported by: "Alves-Foss, James (jimaf@uidaho.edu)" <jimaf@uidaho.edu>

Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 16:10:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 4.0.5.0-win32

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It appears to be DPI unaware.  

My fix for Gnome 3 at 200% on Debian Bullseye:

1. Create a copy of the .desktop to home directory
# $ cp /usr/share/applications/x2goclient.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

2. Change exec= in ~/.local/share/applications/x2goclient.desktop
Exec=env QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 x2goclient

I found this recommendation in https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html
"To get an application designed for low DPI values running on high resolution monitors quickly, consider one of the following:"
"set the QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR environment variable to 1."

Thanks to akik in the #x2go IRC channel for pointing me in the right direction.
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