Using the the per-monitor scaling setting of the currently logged in use doesn't make a lot of sense in the greeter, because there is no logged in user.
The only sensible thing is a best-guess attempt, knowing that hardware has a tendency to lie about its specs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1286878 Title: Doesn't scale well on a hidpi display Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: unity-greeter does not scale on hidpi diplays like the rest of unity does in trusty. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1286878/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp