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Fix Scaling Issues on KDE Plasma

In case of issues switching between Wayland and X11
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I had some scaling issues on KDE Plasma after switching from a Wayland to X11 session and back again. The solution was to:

  1. Log out.
  2. Switch to a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and log in.
  3. Delete or move ~/.local/share/kscreen.
  4. Switch back to a desktop (Ctrl+Alt+F7) and log in again.

I presume this constitutes a hard reset back to defaults on the new login.

The issue seems related to these two bugs: