authentication prompt does not respect monitor scaling when there are multiple monitors

Bug #2015863 reported by Tim Holmes-Mitra
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When the graphical authentication prompt is displayed it follows the scaling of the primary monitor even if its displayed on another monitor with a different scaling factor.

In the attached screenshot I've triggered the prompt on my external monitor which is at 100% scaling. The primary monitor on my laptop is using 200% scaling.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: gnome-shell 44.0-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-19.19-generic 6.2.6
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 11 11:13:36 2023
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-04-05 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Daily amd64 (20230404)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 44.0-2ubuntu3
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Tim Holmes-Mitra (timhm) wrote :
summary: - authenitcation prompt does not respect monitor scaling
+ authentication prompt does not respect monitor scaling when there are
+ multiple monitors
Tim Holmes-Mitra (timhm)
tags: added: rls-ll-incoming
tags: added: multimonitor
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

This is something that will fix automatically when you enable the "fractional scaling" even though you're not using fractional values, so I feel that's something that we won't change as upstream integer scaling is very likely being deprecated in non-x11.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Opinion
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I think it's too soon to set a closed status that will hide the bug from other people. Let's keep it open to avoid duplicates. Also I'm not convinced this can't/won't be fixed.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Opinion → New
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