[UPDATED] Prevent font scaling/Reset to original font scaling

Game Development
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Hallo,
on my Ubuntu machine fonts are scaled with 200%. Launching an sdl app sets font scaling to 100% after quitting so fonts are quite small. How can I reset to the configured font scaling after my sdl app quits or how can I prevent sdl from changing font scaling?

Update:

uname -a: Linux bb-ubuntu 5.19.0-45-generic #46~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jun 7 15:06:04 UTC 20 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

sdl2-config --version: 2.0.20
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Might be good to backup and update your machine to a newer version of Ubuntu. That version of SDL is from January of 2022.

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Built current version myself: [1]

sdl2-config --version: 2.27.1

Still the same behaviour.

[1] SDL2/Installation - SDL Wiki

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Think I have found some kind of workaround: Creating a fullscreen window in full screen resolution with SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN does not change scaling (as long as you don’t change the screen resolution).