Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareAmju Wolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years 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-squareconst_void@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 years agoWhich apps? I’ve discovered recently Electron apps can enable Wayland support with a command line argument.
minus-squareBogasse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoBut isn’t that still on par with xorg where you can’t have any fractional scaling?
minus-squareAmju Wolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoTo be fair I haven’t tried. But I believe even at 2x scaling it looked like shit.
minus-squareexu@feditown.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years 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.
Which apps? I’ve discovered recently Electron apps can enable Wayland support with a command line argument.
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.