In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software

I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don’t believe that they’re a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland’s technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don’t want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don’t want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn’t think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

    • michaelrose@lemmy.ml
      55·
      1 year ago

      I just passed scale to xrandr after computing the proper scale and then used the nvidia-settings gui to write current configuration to xorg.conf its not incredibly hard basically all you are doing is scaling lower DPI items up to the same resolution as your highest dpi item and letting it scale down the correct physical size. For instance if you have 27’ monitors that are 4K and 1080p you just scale the 1080 ones by 2 if you have a 4k 27 and a 1080 24" its closer to 1.75. The correct ratio can be found with your favorite calculator app.

      You can set this scaling directly in nvidia-settings come to think of it where you set viewport in and viewport out.

      • LaggyKar@programming.dev
        232·
        1 year ago

        That’s not at all the same thing. That requires downscaling some screens, which makes everything blurry and breaks subpixel AA.

        • cobra89@beehaw.org
          5·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, wherever someone says “X has/has had fractional scaling” I just ignore them because it’s never actually true fractional scaling that doesn’t look and act like utter crap.

          • pwnna@lemmy.ca
            2·
            1 year ago

            It also tears significantly in my experience, which is pretty unusable…

          • michaelrose@lemmy.mlEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            I know you live in this weird universe where the screen that is 12 inches from my face actually looks like crap but it just isn’t so you are merely confused.

        • michaelrose@lemmy.mlEnglish
          34·
          1 year ago

          It is literally how Wayland is scaling your shit you just don’t know how anything works.

          • LaggyKar@programming.dev
            1·
            1 year ago

            Without the recently added wp-fractional-scale-v1, yes, it will do that if you use fractional scales (albeit per window rather than per monitor). Not however if you stick to integer scales, as they might do in the 1080p+4k use case.