Cinnamon is suddenly HUGE

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Cinnamon is suddenly HUGE

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I come to the office today and I boot my computer (Mint 17 Cinnamon) as usual. Suddenly, everything (except websites) is drawn HUGE. See the screenshot:
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I didn't play with any settings lately. This is my work computer. It seems like when I try to take a screenshot, it's a quarter in size though.

How can I change this back to non-retina-like proportions?
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Re: Cinnamon is suddenly HUGE

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Now thanks to reading this: http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2014/03/h ... -cinnamon/
I figured out a setting for hugeness. Titlebars and mousecursor are still huge, but windows are now normal.
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Now since this has always been set to auto, why would this suddenly go autodetect double?
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Re: Cinnamon is suddenly HUGE

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Sounds like an office prank to me... Are there any known pranksters among your co-workers?

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Re: Cinnamon is suddenly HUGE

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No I'm pretty thorough locking my computer for every second I'm away.

I think we posted at the same time. I posted a message right before you where I found the solution. I rebooted, and now the titles and mouse cursor are also back to normal.

This leaves me with the puzzling wonder why this "auto" setting suddenly chooses "HiDPI/Double" over "normal". I haven't made configuration- or hardware-changes in a year.
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