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I reformatted this Ubuntu Gnome machine that went from 13.10 up to a 15.10 beta over the last few years, after fiddling with the beta, it wasn't able to boot or be repaired. I installed a fresh install of Ubuntu's LTS 14.04 for a more stable setup, with a newly formatted / partition and keeping only /home, /srv and /opt partitions.

The installer's resolution was 1680x1080 but everything was huge. I expected this to be fixed when I finally reboot and probably change drivers.

I used both Nouveau drivers and Nvidia's and it was still the same, tried changing Gnome's scaling factor only resizes the text, all other UI elements stay huge.

changing Gnome's scaling

Clicked on Activities:

Activities Clicked

Clicked on Show Applications:

Show Applications

Show Applications has tiny icons and truncated titles.

What can I do to fix this?

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I seems like my trials of text-scaling-factor were close, but not the solution.

I was able to solve my issue using:

 gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 1

It was set to a factor of 2 from the installer!

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