Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agoHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down12
arrow-up157arrow-down1message-squareHappy new year of the Linux Desktop!Jungle@linux.community to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareAmju Wolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months 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-up2·edit-26 months agoWhich apps? I’ve discovered recently Electron apps can enable Wayland support with a command line argument.
minus-squareexu@feditown.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months ago*every application using xWayland looks like crap. Native Wayland apps work great with fractional scaling.
minus-squareBogasse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoBut isn’t that still on par with xorg where you can’t have any 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.
*every application using xWayland looks like crap.
Native Wayland apps work great with fractional scaling.
But isn’t that still on par with xorg where you can’t have any fractional scaling?