Under Settings / Appearance / Advanced / Scaling does not stick.
Steps to reproduce
- Open Obsidian
- If left panel is not expanded, click appropriate icon in upper left to expand
- Click the gear icon at the bottom of the left column to open the settings window
- Click on the “Appearance” header in the left column
- Scroll down until the “Advanced” section is visible
- Click and hold the “Scaling” slider and adjust to anything other than 100%
- Observe the entire application scale appropriately
- Close the settings window
- Close the Obsidian application
- Restart the Obsidian application
- Observe that all application scaling has reverted to its default 100%
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
This is not bound to any “flavor” - even in an empty vault, the scaling is ignored upon restart.
Expected result
Scaling to be applied
Actual result
Scaling reverts to default, 100% and preference is never persisted
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.2
Installer version: 1.10.3
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Feb 13 17:37:34 UTC 2026 6.12.0-124.35.1.el10_1.x86_64
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: vip
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
Additional information
Running Rocky Linux 10.1 under Sway WM -or- GNOME (doesn’t matter). I see that this has been reported multiple times but relgated to the “grave yard”. Rest assured, this is an ACTIVE issue in the current versions (any recent build, “insider” or not). Note that X11 is no longer distributed with Rocky 10.x or above and is exclusively Wayland but does provide an XWayland shim.
The application is being invoked by the following symlink:
~/.local/bin/obsidian → ../opt/obsidian/v1.10.6/obsidian.AppImage
Observation, as I just typed the symlink above – a completely fresh install my stick properly, but with further updates, something could go awry? (the AppImage was v1.10.6 but subsequently has been updated to v1.12.2?)
And so, “Bob’s your uncle!” – What say you?