diff --git a/app/internal/window/egl_windows.go b/app/internal/window/egl_windows.go
index ac0aa76d..d1d88812 100644
--- a/app/internal/window/egl_windows.go
+++ b/app/internal/window/egl_windows.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ func mustLoadDLL(dll *syscall.LazyDLL, name string) {
 	if loadErr == nil {
 		return
 	}
-	pmsg := syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr("Failed to load " + name+ ". Gio requires the ANGLE OpenGL ES driver to run. A prebuilt version can be downloaded from https://gioui.org/doc/install.")
+	pmsg := syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr("Failed to load " + name + ". Gio requires the ANGLE OpenGL ES driver to run. A prebuilt version can be downloaded from https://gioui.org/doc/install.")
 	ptitle := syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr("Error")
 	syscall.MessageBox(0 /* HWND */, pmsg, ptitle, syscall.MB_ICONERROR|syscall.MB_SYSTEMMODAL)
 	os.Exit(1)
diff --git a/app/internal/window/os_wayland.go b/app/internal/window/os_wayland.go
index 0939409e..90f01c3e 100644
--- a/app/internal/window/os_wayland.go
+++ b/app/internal/window/os_wayland.go
@@ -1071,17 +1071,17 @@ func (w *window) surface() (*C.struct_wl_surface, int, int) {
 
 func (w *window) ShowTextInput(show bool) {}
 
-// detectFontScale reports current font scale, or 1.0
+// detectFontScale reports the system font scale, or monitorScale
 // if it fails.
 func detectFontScale() float32 {
 	// TODO: What about other window environments?
 	out, err := exec.Command("gsettings", "get", "org.gnome.desktop.interface", "text-scaling-factor").Output()
 	if err != nil {
-		return 1.0
+		return monitorScale
 	}
 	scale, err := strconv.ParseFloat(string(bytes.TrimSpace(out)), 32)
 	if err != nil {
-		return 1.0
+		return monitorScale
 	}
 	return float32(scale)
 }