[New-bugs-announce] [issue43694] Tkinter scaling does not work on some linux systems

[A_D]

New submission from A_D <aunderscored at gmail.com>:

When using scaling (as in root.tk.call('scaling', somenum)), some linux systems appear to simply disregard the change. 

I recently reinstalled from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and found that scaling straight up did not work in the application I tried or the test application -- https://github.com/Athanasius/tk-scaling. (image attached)

Tested on python 3.8.8 and 3.9.2 (pyenv)

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components: Tkinter
files: Screenshot_20210401_132045.png
messages: 389975
nosy: aunderscored
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Tkinter scaling does not work on some linux systems
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file49924/Screenshot_20210401_132045.png

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