Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
    6·
    1 year ago

    So most complaints you read about Wayland missing this or that (such as fractional scaling, or screen sharing, or global shortcuts) from over a year or two ago are likely to be wrong today.

    Is fractional scaling in Wayland really working now? I tried it a while ago and everything was blurry mess.

      • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
        1·
        1 year ago

        Just tried it on my laptop and xwayland apps are still blurry mess, even after restart. However, all apps I use now has Wayland support that can be enabled with some flags or environmental variables, so they are actually usable now with fractional scaling. Finally I can use my laptop with 175% scaling, which is much more comfortable than 200% scaling.

        • nora@slrpnk.net
          1·
          1 year ago

          In display settings check the box to allow x11 apps to scale themselves instead of the compositor. Your cursor will still be blurry but the app content itself will be fine. A few apps like steam won’t scale without some kind of launch flag though.

          • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
            1·
            1 year ago

            I don’t see this option. I didn’t even see the option to set fractional scaling without enabling experimental flag from command line.

            • nora@slrpnk.net
              1·
              1 year ago

              I assumed you were on KDE since the dev who wrote the blog post was talking about KDE Wayland but are you on gnome? Gnome"s fractional scaling implementation isn’t as good as KDE’s.

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s working with Sway from a quick test:

      swaymsg output DP-1 scale 1.7

      But XWayland is blurry as expected (that’s the big blocker, or all useful apps being ported to Wayland).