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I've installed Zoom on my Ubuntu yesterday and it worked fine.

Today, the screen suddenly is very small and the fonts are tiny!!!

Very tiny Zoom

I am new to Ubuntu, trying to leave Windows. Unfortunately everything in Ubuntu seems very nerdy and a lot of things have to be done through command line. And I couldn't get my Bose Bluetooth Headphones to work either.

Why is it, that after 20 years of Linux this stuff hasn't improved and you have to be a computer expert just to use it? I don't have to be a car mechanic in order to drive my car!!

Update: I just realized, that you can not see the tininess of Zoom in the screenshot, because it gets enlarged. But believe me, it IS really tiny.

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Wow, you just have to be a computer expert, than you can solve everything on Ubuntu. If you are not, good luck...

This is the solution that worked for me:

  • Open a terminal
  • Type cd ~/.config
  • nano zoomus.conf (For the non-computer experts: nano is a text editor)
  • change the parameter autoScale=false to autoScale=true
  • Press ctrl+x and save the changes

This does not explain at all, why it worked yesterday, without me changing any parameters.

In the car analogy this would be like: Suddenly the car only goes backwards. Users would completely accept that as normal, would google for hours and hours how to fix it, open the hood, plug some cables into different holes, and voila! the car would go forward now.

And nobody would be complaining about that. You would just see often people on the highway, having their hood open, and trying to fix "unexpected errors"

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