Fonts suddenly became too big

[ibobak]

Type: Bug

I have a very weird problem with menu and popup menu fonts - they are too big.

I've looked through all the settings with "font" in name, there is no one with size >= 14, and no one corresponding to "menu" or "submenu" or something like that.

Neither googling, nor asking chatgpt help to find out how to decrease them. Please, help to find the setting name.

VS Code version: Code 1.93.1 (38c31bc, 2024-09-11T17:20:05.685Z)
OS version: Linux x64 6.8.0-40-generic
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[rzhao271]

The only setting I know that could increase the font size of those menus is window.zoomLevel. I notice you also have the zoomer extension installed and wonder whether that could contribute to the issue.

If changing the setting or disabling the extension does not resolve the issue, let me know in which version of VS Code the issue started, and whether reverting to a previous version works.

[ibobak]

I have "window.zoomLevel": 0, and I've tried to set -0.5, 1, 0.5 and other values, and it affects only the fonts which are inside (editor, explorer, etc.) but it doesn't affect the fonts of menus. Besides, I've disabled zoomer, restarted VS Code - nothing changed.

[ibobak]

This started from 1.91 or 1.92. Actually, I can set up a clean instance on VM (without account sync) and try to move the settings one by one to see which setting influence. But this is troublesome a little bit. Do you know other ways?

[ibobak]

my settings
settings.json.txt

[rzhao271]

I realized this issue is a duplicate of #224515
See workaround at #224515 (comment)