Bug 2531798 - Fedora logo on GDM greeter pixelated when fractional scaling (125%) is enabled — low-resolution shipped PNG
Summary: Fedora logo on GDM greeter pixelated when fractional scaling (125%) is enable...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fedora-logos
Version: 44
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-09-11 08:37 UTC by as
Modified: 2026-09-14 08:54 UTC (History)
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Description as 2026-09-11 08:37:49 UTC
The Fedora logo at the bottom of the GDM login screen appears blurry and pixelated whenever the greeter renders at fractional scaling, for example at 125%. Fractional scaling is the setting GNOME commonly selects by default on many displays since Fedora 41, so this affects the out-of-the-box login experience on typical hardware.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Fedora Workstation 44 on a display where GDM picks 125%
2.Reboot or log out and observe the logo at the bottom of the greeter
3.Observe the Fedora logo at the bottom of the screen
Actual Results:
The logo is visibly upscaled, pixelated, and stretched — clearly rendered beyond its native bitmap size.

Expected Results:
A crisp, sharp logo.

Additional Information:
Root cause: the shipped asset /usr/share/pixmaps/fedora-gdm-logo.png is only 149×43 pixels, which is too small for the greeter to render it crisply at fractional scale. This can be confirmed with:
$ file /usr/share/pixmaps/fedora-gdm-logo.png
PNG image data, 149 x 43, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced

This was previously noted as a known issue in the Fedora 42 Beta release notes ("Fedora logo on GNOME login screen is very large" when fractional scaling is in use), but the underlying asset resolution was never increased.

Verified workaround: pointing org.gnome.login-screen logo via a dconf override at /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/ at a 596 px-wide render of the official logo eliminates the blur entirely, confirming that asset resolution — not the greeter itself — is the problem.

Suggested fix: ship a higher-resolution version of the logo (e.g. an SVG-derived render of at least 600 px width), or repoint the org.gnome.login-screen logo default at a higher-resolution asset.

Comment 1 Kamil Páral (Red Hat) 2026-09-14 08:54:30 UTC
Dropping CommonBugs - while this already was documented once, I don't think it's a high-profile enough bug to qualify for it.


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