Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!message-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1356arrow-down16
arrow-up1350arrow-down1message-squareHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squareAmju Wolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up23·1 year agoAs someone using Wayland on a HiDPI screen it’s not a great experience with legacy apps. You can’t completely rely on application-controlled scaling since not all apps support it and if you switch to system-wide scaling everything looks like crap.
minus-squareBogasse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoBut isn’t that still on par with xorg where you can’t have any fractional scaling?
minus-squareAmju Wolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoTo be fair I haven’t tried. But I believe even at 2x scaling it looked like shit.
minus-squareexu@feditown.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago*every application using xWayland looks like crap. Native Wayland apps work great with fractional scaling.
As someone using Wayland on a HiDPI screen it’s not a great experience with legacy apps. You can’t completely rely on application-controlled scaling since not all apps support it and if you switch to system-wide scaling everything looks like crap.
But isn’t that still on par with xorg where you can’t have any fractional scaling?
To be fair I haven’t tried. But I believe even at 2x scaling it looked like shit.
*every application using xWayland looks like crap.
Native Wayland apps work great with fractional scaling.