HiDPI Scaling (this time via -forcedesktopscaling) is broken once again

[ri0t]

Your system information

• Steam client version: 1717294964 and previous 2 or 3 months
• Distribution: NixOS 23.05 with KDE 5
• Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
• Have you checked for system updates?: No
• GPU: Nvidia

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Using -forcedesktopscaling 1.75 used to work to scale the UI to a readable state. Now it doesn't do that anymore and Steam is pretty much unusable (once again!) on smaller 4k screens. Please consider switching your development machines to 4k displays, the code looks much crispier that way, too ;-)

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Launch: steam -forcedesktopscaling 1.75
2. Observe it running with the tiniest fonts imaginable (more or less unreadable!)

[nattyebola]

same for me, forcedesktopscaling parameter ignored

• ubuntu 24.04
• GNOME Shell 46.0
• wayland
• non fractional scale : 300%
• Steam version : 1718305227

[nattyebola]

in fact, it works for me before I had to set -forcedesktopscaling=1.5 now it's -forcedesktopscaling=3 ¯ \ (ツ) / ¯