I tried switching from Gnome (Metacity) to Ubuntu (default) because I wanted to try something with Unity. The screen appeared WAY zoomed in, with the Gnome menu bar still at the top, and the side dock momentarily visible, then disappeared. I tried switching back and logging in, and the desktop is screwed up: menus and icons about 4x the size they should be, the upper menu bar almost useless.
The screen resolution reports as 1920x1080, but is actually 1/4 of that, zoomed into the upper left quadrant. xrandr
also reports 1920x1080, but if I use --scale 2.0 x 2.0
, it refreshes at the correct resolution (but the menus, cursor, etc. are all wrong).
Other users are still fine; it's just my account.
Any ideas how I can "reset" this back to its correct size, etc.?