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I think you misunderstood the scaling part. I'm scaling down from 4k to 1080p for my old monitors. The 4k screen is at its native resolution. Anything else wou

by lima 10y ago

I think you misunderstood the scaling part. I'm scaling down from 4k to 1080p for my old monitors. The 4k screen is at its native resolution. Anything else would be sinful :)

BoorishBears 10y ago
That was amongst the fixes I found on stack overflow, and it was nearly identical as far as issues. Maybe I'd have been ok with comparing that to Windows (where some programs do get scaled down if you start them on a high res screen and move them to a low res screen), but macOS is the definition of perfect handling of multiple monitors. These tricks don't come close to that experience for me, let alone exceed it...
- lima 10y ago
  Downscaling works fine for me, so I don't know what I'm missing :) It's probably going to look better with Wayland's per-screen DPI setting, but in the meantime, it's good enough (tm) for me. Why Linux font rendering exceeds the macOS experience for me: I like the FreeType rendering much better than macOS - less "blurry". Probably comes down to taste. Unless I'm mistaken, macOS scales down for non-integer sizes while Gnome can be configured to render at a fractional value. Obviously it's much more polished in macOS (otherwise I wouldn't have had to type out the tutorial above), but I'm using Linux for other reasons beyond that and having good font rendering is just a plus - it used to much, much worse.
rhinoceraptor 10y ago
4k at native (unless you're using a single, >30 inch display) is too small. I use two 4k, 28 inch monitors and everything is too small at native resolution. I ran in to a lot of issues doing the xrandr downscaling (my two displays would overlap), so I've just been using Windows partition since this is my gaming PC. My linux partition is Arch, I hope Gnome supports easy fractional scaling soon. Something similar to the display scaling menu on Mac OS would be really nice.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
  4K native with the scaling factor cranked up to match.
  - sevensor 10y ago
    Which is how I run Sway on my laptop --- thank you!
    - Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
      No problem :)

by lima 10y ago

I think you misunderstood the scaling part. I'm scaling down from 4k to 1080p for my old monitors. The 4k screen is at its native resolution. Anything else would be sinful :)

BoorishBears 10y ago

That was amongst the fixes I found on stack overflow, and it was nearly identical as far as issues. Maybe I'd have been ok with comparing that to Windows (where some programs do get scaled down if you start them on a high res screen and move them to a low res screen), but macOS is the definition of perfect handling of multiple monitors. These tricks don't come close to that experience for me, let alone exceed it...

lima 10y ago
Downscaling works fine for me, so I don't know what I'm missing :) It's probably going to look better with Wayland's per-screen DPI setting, but in the meantime, it's good enough (tm) for me. Why Linux font rendering exceeds the macOS experience for me: I like the FreeType rendering much better than macOS - less "blurry". Probably comes down to taste. Unless I'm mistaken, macOS scales down for non-integer sizes while Gnome can be configured to render at a fractional value. Obviously it's much more polished in macOS (otherwise I wouldn't have had to type out the tutorial above), but I'm using Linux for other reasons beyond that and having good font rendering is just a plus - it used to much, much worse.

rhinoceraptor 10y ago

4k at native (unless you're using a single, >30 inch display) is too small. I use two 4k, 28 inch monitors and everything is too small at native resolution. I ran in to a lot of issues doing the xrandr downscaling (my two displays would overlap), so I've just been using Windows partition since this is my gaming PC. My linux partition is Arch, I hope Gnome supports easy fractional scaling soon. Something similar to the display scaling menu on Mac OS would be really nice.

Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
4K native with the scaling factor cranked up to match.
- sevensor 10y ago
  Which is how I run Sway on my laptop --- thank you!
  - Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
    No problem :)