DPI way to big and wont go below 1.25 even when explicitly set

[Naughtyusername]

Hello, apologies if there is an easy solve, i searched for quite awhile now and read everything i could find and nothing worked out for me.

default niri set my scale to 1.5, i changed it to 1. nothing happened. rebooted and it kept my setting of 1 but when i do 'niri msg outputs' it displays it as 1.25. changing this via wlr-randr works.. partially.

gsettings can change font scaling, and that works. the gsettings dpi scale doesnt appear to change anything though, but wlr-randr is able to get the dpi settings set across most apps correctly and everything looks good... except browsers (and i installed fuzzle since it was suggested for niri.) firefox, chrome, fuzzle all are enormous and i cant seem to get them smaller, anyone have any ideas? had no issues with this on sway, and rebooting back to sway everything is fine there.

if you need any more info to help me pinpoint this I'm happy to provide. appreciate any and all help, would love to play with this rad wm some more!

Specs:
Arch
Niri/Wayland
single monitor T480 laptop
xwayland-satellite
wlr-randr
some gsettings that i think are installed via dependency to nwg-look that i used to set gtk themes on sway.
everything up to date, just installed niri to try it out.

[Sempyos]

Can you try setting the scale via the IPC, to 0.5 or similar.

[Naughtyusername]

was able to fix it with these after a reboot
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 1
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.1
wlr-randr --output eDP-1 --scale 1

just made a startup script to force it to persist.