Linux Pcbnew Accelerated Toolset broken [Solved]

Good Day,
i am using KiCAD on Fedora 31 and with the latest update Pcbnew uses only a quarter of the screen with the accelerated Tolset. The Fallback works fine. This also means that the 3D-Viewer makes only use of a quarter of the Screen.


Has Anyone noticed something like this or is aware of a bug report? My Version Details are below.
Thanks in Advance
Detzi!

Application: Pcbnew
Version: 5.1.5-1.fc31, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d-fips zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Linux 5.3.15-300.fc31.x86_64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.69.0
OpenCASCADE Technology: 7.4.0
Curl: 7.66.0
Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

Unfortunately this time the exact KiCad version info doesn’t tell much. OS and hardware are important. Graphics hardware and driver version. Also monitor resolution.

Okay well thats easy i am using a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 3rd gen running fedora31 (cinnamon spin).

Resolution is: 2560x1440px
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus
chip ID: 8086:1616
Display: x11 server: Fedora Project X.org 1.20.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa tty: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.7
compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes

System:

Host: localhost.localdomain Kernel: 5.3.15-300.fc31.x86_64 x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 9.2.1 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.2 wm: muffin dm: LightDM
Distro: Fedora release 31 (Thirty One)


Please let me know if i have to be more specific!

Please look at the Known System Related Issues page on the website, specifically the part about High DPI screens (https://kicad.org/help/known-system-related-issues/#_high_dpi_screens). What you describe sounds exactly like the scaling for the screen not being detected automatically.

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Thanks i will have a look at it, it used to work fine thou…
EDIT
That was spot on man… strange that it broke after an update and worked fine until then.
But all questions answered, there are bug reports and the suggested solution worked as well.
Thank you!

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