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New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland
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I feel like GNOME developers need to drop what they’re doing immediately and focus on making fractional scaling usable. Hi-DPI scaling is everywhere nowadays from TVs to laptop monitors, not supporting it properly is a massive problem for all affected users.
I’d switch to Linux pretty quickly if they made using my damn laptop a usable experience without dealing with blurry apps or having to use a microscope to read text.
kde already has good fractional scaling, time to switch?
I really like the GNOME app ecosystem, I like KDE too but I’m not sure I’d make it my default desktop environment.
But then you have bad touchpad gestures... 😅
Saying that but KDE have been having fantastic 1:1 trackpad for a looong time now. And most are usable. What is bad for you? Does gnomes let you configure with gesture for which?
Gnome's trackpad gestures are just something else. I don't know what wizardry they've done.
Those in Plasma and Windows are just terrible in comparison tbh. Gnome's are better than Apple's, even.
But the result of those gestures(the overview) is not as useful as the overview in gnome and you have to swipe up to go to the overview and swipe up(not down for some unfanthomnable reason) again to leave the overview. A new gesture system has been added to plasma 6 which looks promising. The dev who made it said he has taken a lot of inspiration from gnome.
Basically a good 1:1 , nice overview (three fingers up, three fingers down stop), and yes you can configure in gnome (through extension I know...) the three and four fingers gestures. Also, they are as smooth as a Macbook in my experience.
Actually quite good now on Plasma 6
This is exactly what this change is about. Most blurry apps are blurry because they don't support Wayland (yet/by default) and are running using XWayland.
The only Wayland native software where I had problems with fractional scaling is Qt WebEngine which doesn't handle scaling correctly.
Yeah also no idea why XWayland is a problem, in general their fractional scaling is hidden, and when enabling it everything is blurry.
KDE works really well, for a long time, for Wayland and XWayland.
Meanwhile Windows 11... idk.
Windows 11 just has a fuckin grand mal seizure whenever you move a window from a scaled monitor to a non-scaled monitor.
But hey at least the scaling works!
Fractional scaling has been perfectly functional on Gnome's Wayland implementation for some time already.
I’m guessing you’ve never used an electron app before?
That's a problem with XWayland, not Wayland. Forcing electron apps to run using the latter generally fixes the problem.