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@QuLogic QuLogic commented Aug 6, 2025

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With X11, there is only ever a single scale, regardless of monitors as in Wayland, so it's always the highest scale (i.e., it's 2 if you have 1.5&1-scaled monitors). Thus we get no change events and don't update the internal scale. On Wayland though, as noted in the other issue from Qt devs, you only get the fractional scale after the first expose, so there's always at least one event there.

In the older/pre-#30345 code path, in showEvent, we'd call _update_screen to set callbacks for its changes, and that also called _update_pixel_ratio. In the new code, we don't have that initial call, and because Wayland always has at least one event at startup, it all seemed to work.

So just add the _update_pixel_ratio call in the new code path as well. On X11, this will be the highest integer scale needed and never changes. On Wayland, this will also be the rounded-up integer scale, but if using fractional scaling, will change with a subsequent event to the correct one. This does cause a few extra changes on startup, but should be more consistent across platforms.

Fixes #30386

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With X11, there is only ever a single scale, regardless of monitors as
in Wayland, so it's always the highest scale (i.e., it's 2 if you have
1.5&1-scaled monitors). Thus we get no change events and don't update
the internal scale. On Wayland though, as noted in the other issue from
Qt devs, you only get the fractional scale after the first expose, so
there's always at least one event there.

In the older/pre-#30345 code path, in `showEvent`, we'd call
`_update_screen` to set callbacks for its changes, and that _also_
called `_update_pixel_ratio`. In the new code, we don't have that
initial call, and because Wayland always has at least one event at
startup, it all seemed to work.

So just add the `_update_pixel_ratio` call in the new code path as well.
On X11, this will be the highest integer scale needed and never changes.
On Wayland, this will also be the rounded-up integer scale, but if using
fractional scaling, will change with a subsequent event to the correct
one. This does cause a few extra changes on startup, but should be more
consistent across platforms.
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QuLogic commented Aug 6, 2025

On Wayland though, as noted in the other issue from Qt devs, you only get the fractional scale after the first expose, so there's always at least one event there.

In fact, if on Wayland you had a integer scale, then the previous code would also be incorrectly scaled, since then you don't get that first event that happens with fractional scales.

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QuLogic commented Aug 6, 2025

Note, I do expect this to fix the problem on Windows as well, but I cannot test it.

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MAKOMO commented Aug 8, 2025

Is this a X11/Windows issue only? I observe a degration on macOS as well. Window in the background is MPL 3.10.5, the one in the foreground is 3.10.3, both running on Qt/PyQt 6.9.1.

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MAKOMO commented Aug 8, 2025

On the positive side: adding that self._update_pixel_ratio() in showEvent() seems to fix the issue on macOS as well.

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BUG: Qt hi-dpi regression on windows and X11 with mpl 3.10.5
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