Whenever I boot up, my monitor's settings are always zoomed in about at 10, out of a scale of 0-100.
It also happens if I turn my monitor off and on again.
If I change my Display settings to rotate my screen orientation from Landscape to Portrait and back, but not Landscape to Flipped Landscape and back.
And changing the Scale in the Display Settings menu doesn't mess up the Zoom again, either.
I have a Dell SP2208WFP, and my Monitors.xml looks like:
<monitors version="2">
<configuration>
<logicalmonitor>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<scale>0</scale>
<primary>yes</primary>
<monitor>
<monitorspec>
<connector>HDMI-A-1</connector>
<vendor>DEL</vendor>
<product>SP2208WFP</product>
<serial>RR268831CT0U</serial>
</monitorspec>
<mode>
<width>1680</width>
<height>1050</height>
<rate>59.954250335693359</rate>
</mode>
</monitor>
</logicalmonitor>
</configuration>
</monitors>
...
And now, Scale is reset to 1... Because I exited a fullscreen app or something?? Scale doesn't seem to affect the actual monitor, anyways. I change it with Display Settings to 125%, and it changes to 1.25 in monitor.xml, but nothing changes to the monitor itself.
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It even happens in Recovery Mode, when I don't have a DISPLAY variable set.
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But, it doesn't seem to happen if I connect through VGA instead of HDMI...
Still happens in 26.04 Ubuntu Desktop, Doesn't happen on my Windows 10 machine, and zoom level changes accordingly when I between them using a UGreen HDMI splitter (ACBUGN50966).
Doesn't happen on a boot, until after the spinny icon / booting screen refreshes. Not sure what the refreshing indicates, but something?