Brave Scaling on Linux

[wheat imp]

Hi all, I've recently switched to Linux and I've used Brave up until now on Windows. I've noticed a pretty jarring change in how Braves looks on Linux vs Windows where on Linux it looks like everything is scaled at 110%. I can scale webpages back down but the UI is still sitting at what looks like 110%. I see that there's an issue open for a scaling issue on GitHub. Can anyone confirm if what I'm seeing is the fixed version or if this is the broken version? Attached you can see a side by side of Windows and Linux.
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/32293

[tired spire]

what version are you currently on ?

[wheat imp]

Version 1.58.137 Chromium: 117.0.5938.153 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[tired spire]

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[neat sphinx]

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[wheat imp]

What was your environment? - Arch Linux
What did you do? What did you run or test? Where? - None, installed Brave and checked themes to see if this was specific to a theme
What actually happened? What were the exact results, complete log contents, exact error messages? - UI looks scaled up
What did you expect? What were you aiming to achieve? What result were you looking for? - UI to not look scaled up

I'm basically looking to see if anyone knows if this is the expected look or if it's the bug mentioned in the GitHub issue

[tired spire]

I am not experiencing scaled up UI.

[wheat imp]

Thanks for the info. I'll dive deeper into it then and find out if it's a config somewhere that caused it and then provide an update (if I find out why)

[lean carbon]

shashwat20 received a thank you cookie!

[wheat imp]

Did you install it through AUR?

[tired spire]

yeah

[wheat imp]

Hmm... Weird... Thanks for launching pad!

[lean carbon]

You're thanking too much ó_ò

[tired spire]

where did you installed it from?

[wheat imp]

The default location, I didn't make any changes when installing it

[tired spire]

Can you check the Page zoom setting inside brave

[wheat imp]

Page zoom is at 100%

[tired spire]

de or wm ?

[wheat imp]

Another example of Firefox vs Brave -

I also just checked Vivaldi and it's doing the same thing as Brave

KDE Plasma

[tired spire]

can you check for some weird KDE setting (not sure)

[wheat imp]

Since it's affecting more than one Browser maybe it's tied to Plasma + Chromium

[split talon]

are you on x11 or wayland?

it could be that all xwayland windows are getting scaled and native wayland windows aren't, or the other way around

if you are on wayland

[wheat imp]

Im on x11 since I have an NVIDIA card

I haven't dived too far into DE or WMs since I'm still trying to get some feature parity between Linux/Windows

[split talon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[waxen thorn]

Check your KDE settings as shashwat20 said

[wheat imp]

Any recommendations on what settings I should look for? I tried switching themes to see if it would make a difference but nothing there

[waxen thorn]

Window scaling or anything else related to scaling