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.
Clicked on Activities:
Clicked on Show Applications:
Show Applications has tiny icons and truncated titles.
What can I do to fix this?