diff --git a/bin/xsettingsd-setup b/bin/xsettingsd-setup
index f22148e..c70aef7 100755
--- a/bin/xsettingsd-setup
+++ b/bin/xsettingsd-setup
@@ -38,10 +38,4 @@ change() {
     echo Xft.dpi: $dpi | xrdb -merge
 }
 
-if [ x"$pid" != x ]; then
-    # Change a first time to a DPI that will trigger a scale factor
-    # change (notably, Firefox needs that).
-    change $(( $dpi * 2 ))
-    sleep 1
-fi
 change $dpi