Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fractionalscaling, aggregated by home.social.
Viewing a 1920x1080 [screenshot] taken from #NetBSD on a 1920x1080 laptop running #sway (#wayland) with 1.5x scaling set in sway:
nsxiv (X11) -- horrible blurry mess
imv (Wayland native) -- far clearer, but still blurry (can tell by looking at the parts that use bitmapped fonts)
swayimg (Wayland, maybe wlroots-native??) -- completely crisp
#FractionalScaling still sucks too much, y'all. 🫣 🙄
Happy to have discovered #fractionalscaling for my multi-monitor setup in #GNOME (using 125% on one device)!
I'm aware of the potential downsides of oversampling + down-scaling, but eager to see how it performs for me.
And another set of updates what's coming in #KDEPlasma6 by Kai-Uwe Broulik:
https://blog.broulik.de/2024/01/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-vol-5/
I know it is an ongoing effort to make the Linux desktop more friendly to high-DPI screens, and variable DPI multi-monitor setups... I just want to say that terminal apps don't have this issue if you can easily switch font size in your terminal emulator 😆
I wish there was a way of using fractional scaling (on Linux) without making all monochrome images in the web browser look like crap because they're getting subtly scaled, even when you try to match the scale factor precisely.
(and I'm doing 125% fractional scaling, so it's not like it's a really *weird* number)
It's kind of sad when you're walking down memory lane on infinitemac.org, and it looks like blurry trash. :'(
Took a couple #Linux distros out for a spin today on my Lenovo x1 Carbon laptop. #EndeavourOS #SolusOS #MXLinux #NixOS to drop names.
It’s been a loooooong time since I looked at desktop environments as well. #FractionalScaling seems to be an issue still for most DEs. #HIDPI is life, get with it #LXQT & #XFCE. Also not impressed with the direction of #KDEplasma or #Gnome to be honest. #Budgie is great, and I enjoy seeing it get a chance in other distributions too.
#Fedora has been a favorite of mine for a long time, but seeing what #IBM has done with limiting #RedHat after they gutted #CentOS removes my ability to support them anymore.
Anyone have any suggestions?
How to Fix Blurry Firefox under Wayland on Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/fix-firefox-blurry-wayland-fonts-ubuntu
#fractionalscaling #Firefox #wayland #HowTo #hidpi #tips
How to Fix Blurry Firefox under Wayland on Ubuntu
The 2K screen on my “main” Ubuntu laptop is pin sharp but, alas, Mozilla Firefox is not! Now, I’m not saying the browser looks awful. It’s perfectly usable, and I reckon a fair number of people would struggle to see any issue at all. But I do. Fonts within the UI and within the web content are slightly blurry, and window controls, buttons, and other icons rendered don’t appear as crisp or pixel-perfect as the rest of the GNOME desktop I’ve no idea how “widespread” this issue is as, honestly, blurry fonts in a browser on Linux could be caused :sys_more_orange:
#HowTo #Firefox #FractionalScaling #Hidpi #Tips #Wayland
:sys_omgubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/fix-firefox-blurry-wayland-fonts-ubuntu
The default resolution is too dense on the Pinebook Pro, so I had to:
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"
And then set it to 150% in the display settings.
If you do that and use Firefox, it will appear blurry so edit the firefox.desktop file (/usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop) and change the exec line to:
Exec=env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox %u
You:
- have a laptop with a 13" screen and 1920x1080 resolution and a 4K external monitor
- run the laptop at 1x scale
- run the 4K screen at 2x scale (pixel doubled)
- are on elementary OS 5.x (Hera) or elementary OS 6 (Odin)
- want to be able to read what’s on every screen whether the external screen is plugged in or not
You need this script:
https://gist.github.com/aral/9cf2eee6d7e13556b6aed2bb118d3c8b
You’re welcome :)
#elementaryOS #usability #resolution #fractionalScaling #legibility #a11y
XFCE 4.16 to Feature Better Fractional Scaling Support
Xfce 4.16 carries improved support for fractional scaling using XRandR, as well as better handling of mis-configured scaling values.
#News #DesktopEnvironments #FractionalScaling #Xfce #Xfce4_16
:sys_omgubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/09/xfce-fractional-scaling