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Flatpak UI appears very small on XFCE HiDPI setup #104

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@BenRoe

Hi, and thanks for GitFourchette.

I’m using the Flatpak build and noticed that the UI/font size appears much smaller than the rest of my desktop apps on my setup.

Environment:

  • GitFourchette Flatpak: org.gitfourchette.gitfourchette
  • GitFourchette version: 1.7.1
  • OS: Debian 13
  • Architecture: aarch64 / ARM64
  • Desktop: XFCE
  • Running inside a VM

For comparison, the Obsidian Flatpak renders at a normal size on the same system.

This workaround fixes the GitFourchette UI scale for me:

flatpak override --user --env=QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 org.gitfourchette.gitfourchette

After restarting GitFourchette, the UI looks correct.

I’m not sure whether this is something the Flatpak manifest/launcher can handle, or
whether it’s more of a Qt/Flatpak/XFCE scaling edge case, but I wanted to report it in
case there’s a better default or recommended workaround.

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