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Newcomer
April 26, 2024
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Zoom doesn't scale properly on an HD monitor with a scaling factor greater then 100%

  • April 26, 2024
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I have a laptop with a resolution of 3840x2160. Scaling is set to 200. Zoom does not display properly unless the scaling is set to 100. Of course, this makes the menu bar on the bottom of the screen unreadable. I've tried setting scaling properties for the app with little success. It did work for a while, but a zoom update broke it.

 

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Newcomer
November 1, 2024

Same here.  Running Linux + KDE Plasma + Wayland with zoom flatpak. Text in the chat is far too small.  The whole app should scale based on the desktop but does not.

New Member
March 17, 2026

Same problem on my ThinkPad X390 with 1920 x 1080 resolution and 150% scaling, running openSUSE Leap 16.0 and zoom 6.7.5. In this distro, System settings, Display & monitor, there’s a setting for Legacy applications (X11), with choices for Apply scaling themselves (default), and Scaled by the system. With the default setting, the New meeting window had the Start button off-screen and not accessible. I switched to Scaled by the system, and the New meeting window fits on the screen. I’ll try using this in a meeting tomorrow and see how it does.

New Member
March 17, 2026

I was in an openSUSE zoom meeting this morning with windows Scaled by the system, and things worked properly: windows fit the screen.

This problem seems to be only on Linux systems. This same ThinkPad booted to Windows 11 and running zoom 6.7.8 scales various zoom windows correctly. Zoom seems to have chosen to not include the scaling function in their Linux versions. Bummer.