Greeter is tiny for hidpi screens.

[garare992]

The greeter appears too small on HiDPI screens. When you first log in or perform a fresh install, it is very small.

If you adjust your display settings to a 200% scale and then log out and log back in, the greeter still appears tiny.

However, if you close your laptop lid or log out, the greeter is correctly scaled.

[garare992]

I apologize, greeter does not correctly scale when you log out Only when you close the lid or the computer sleeps

[canadaduane]

Does anyone know of a way to set the scale of the screen during the greeter phase of a session?

[Drakulix]

Does anyone know of a way to set the scale of the screen during the greeter phase of a session?

That depends on where your distro is storing the cosmic-greeter home directory. On Pop!_OS you can run sudo vim /var/lib/cosmic-greeter/.local/state/cosmic-comp/outputs.ron and change the scale for the relevant output configurations.

However the more interesting question would be to figure out, why your system isn't defaulting to a higher scale...

[canadaduane]

However the more interesting question would be to figure out, why your system isn't defaulting to a higher scale...

The reason might be that the initial greeter page, before first-time login, runs under a different group/user. As a result, it does not inherit the scale settings specified in the regular user's configuration.

[garare992]

I opened this issue when i was using the pop-os alpha iso. Now I'm using Nixos and don't face this issue anymore.

[canadaduane]

FWIW, here is my configuration:

...
       [
            (
                connector: "eDP-1",
                make: "Unknown",
                model: "2399",
            ),
        ]: [
            (
                mode: ((2256, 1504), Some(59999)),
                vrr: false,
                scale: 1.0,
                transform: Normal,
                position: (0, 0),
                enabled: true,
                max_bpc: Some(12),
            ),
        ],
...

By changing scale from 1.0 to 1.5 I was able to solve the issue (on my system).