diff --git a/src/PanelWindow.vala b/src/PanelWindow.vala
index a8048e3b..b5ecb6bb 100644
--- a/src/PanelWindow.vala
+++ b/src/PanelWindow.vala
@@ -110,10 +110,6 @@ public class Wingpanel.PanelWindow : Gtk.Window {
 
         // We just use our monitor because Gala makes sure we are always on the primary one
         var monitor_dimensions = get_display ().get_monitor_at_window (get_window ()).get_geometry ();
-        monitor_dimensions.width /= get_scale_factor ();
-        monitor_dimensions.height /= get_scale_factor ();
-        monitor_dimensions.x /= get_scale_factor ();
-        monitor_dimensions.y /= get_scale_factor ();
 
         monitor_width = monitor_dimensions.width;
         monitor_height = monitor_dimensions.height;
@@ -171,7 +167,7 @@ public class Wingpanel.PanelWindow : Gtk.Window {
 
             var prop = xdisplay.intern_atom ("_MUTTER_HINTS", false);
 
-            var value = "anchor=4:hide-mode=0:size=-1,%d".printf (get_allocated_height () * get_scale_factor ());
+            var value = "anchor=4:hide-mode=0:size=-1,%d".printf (get_allocated_height ());
 
             xdisplay.change_property (window, prop, X.XA_STRING, 8, 0, (uchar[]) value, value.length);
         }
@@ -186,7 +182,7 @@ public class Wingpanel.PanelWindow : Gtk.Window {
                 desktop_panel = desktop_shell.get_panel (wl_surface);
                 desktop_panel.set_anchor (TOP);
                 desktop_panel.set_hide_mode (NEVER);
-                desktop_panel.set_size (-1, get_allocated_height () * get_scale_factor ());
+                desktop_panel.set_size (-1, get_allocated_height ());
 
                 Idle.add_once (update_panel_dimensions); // Update again since we now can be 100% sure that we are on the primary monitor
             }