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Recently switched to Wayland — Scaling hurts my eyes, any tips? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by owatnext@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Hello,

So I have recently switched to Wayland from X11 on Void Linux with KDE5. All went fine, programs seem to work fine but the scaling hurts my eyes pretty bad.

The text and buttons are too small for me to read without scaling somewhere from 125-150%, but when scaling, most buttons are blurry and the rest are jagged/experience text clipping.

Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone have any input? I don't remember scaling making things blurry under X11 but maybe I am remembering wrong, I will have to dive back into it when I have more time and check it.

Thanks for any input. (=

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[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

It shouldn't get blurry when scalled. Maybe something wrong with the setting?

[-] Perroboc@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Try scaling, and then logging out and back in.

[-] owatnext@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

This was it, thanks mate. I feel a bit silly not trying this before asking online!

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It should not be blurry. What do you have under Settings -> Display and Monitor? You can set a scale there (I have 150% on my 4k monitor), and make sure X11 apps apply scaling themselves. You probably are still running apps in X11 mode and having "scaled by the system" checked.

Firefox and other apps needs environment variables to be set to use Wayland, otherwise they will still use Xorg.

[-] owatnext@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Thanks for letting me know about the Wayland env var for Firefox! I would not have known that otherwise!

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

Very happy to help. This stuff is covered in the arch wiki, that's how I learned it:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wayland

[-] mellejwz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Same, many elements are blurry when I use scaling in Arch with KDE.

[-] ayushnix 1 points 10 months ago

Make sure that the apps you're using are running natively on Wayland and not on XWayland. You can use an application like xeyes to confirm this. But if you still feel that scaling makes things relatively blurry or laggy, you're not alone. Wayland doesn't really have fractional scaling, at least not yet. The fractional-scale-v1 protocol has been merged in most Wayland compositors but hasn't been released in a stable tag yet. KDE6 should bring that improvement.

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