600068 – app-office/libreoffice: unset GDK_SCALE

Bug 600068 - app-office/libreoffice: unset GDK_SCALE

Summary: app-office/libreoffice: unset GDK_SCALE

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Office Team

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Reported:	2016-11-17 03:52 UTC by Jason A. Donenfeld
Modified:	2020-12-11 22:40 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Jason A. Donenfeld gentoo-dev

2016-11-17 03:52:02 UTC

LibreOffice uses xrdb (Xft.dpi: 192) for DPI settings, not the GDK variable. Having the GDK variable set works well for everything else, but breaks LibreOffice. Gentoo should work around it by unsetting it in the launcher.

This should be added to the top of /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice:

    unset GDK_SCALE
    export GDK_SCALE

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2016-11-17 21:18:26 UTC

(In reply to Jason A. Donenfeld from comment #0)
>     unset GDK_SCALE

'unset' already deletes exported variables.
So the line below is not needed.

>     export GDK_SCALE

Comment 2 Jason A. Donenfeld gentoo-dev

2016-11-25 10:58:50 UTC

Actually I've found the solution that works for HiDPI with libreoffice[gtk3] is adding this to the startup script:

export GDK_DPI_SCALE="$GDK_SCALE"
unset GDK_SCALE

This works around the existing libreoffice bugs.

Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2020-11-25 01:50:33 UTC

Is this still required?

Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2020-12-10 19:33:39 UTC

(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #3)
> Is this still required?

Comment 5 Jason A. Donenfeld gentoo-dev

2020-12-11 22:40:07 UTC

I don't think so. Seems fine 4 years later.