I switched to Wayland by enabling modesetting (for KMS) in nvidia drivers and the scale persists after a reboot when using Wayland instead of Xorg.
See this bug for how to enable: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/1697882 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1717272 Title: HiDPI settings reset on logout Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When logging in to my XPS 13 (9360) on 17.10, the only thing that is reasonably (200%) scaled is the sidebar. Top bar, windows, and fonts are all unscaled and TINY. - I'll go to Control Centre, Devices, Displays, and see that scaling is set to 200%. - I'll then change the scaling to 100%, and hit apply and confirm. At this point, windows are scaled to 200%. - I need to change the scaling to 100% AGAIN. Now everything is 100%, and therefore tiny - I then change the scaling to 200%, hit apply and confirm, which does barely anything - I then need to set scaling to 200% AGAIN, hit apply and confirm, and only *then* everything is properly scaled. I need to do this every time I log back in. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.25.92.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-13.14-generic 4.12.10 Uname: Linux 4.12.0-13-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Sep 14 16:33:30 2017 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1717272/+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
