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The big change will come with Gnome 3.28 - real fractional scaling. You can test early version of it on 3.26 [1] (experimental). [1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk

by jacek 9y ago

The big change will come with Gnome 3.28 - real fractional scaling. You can test early version of it on 3.26 [1] (experimental). [1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/enable-fractional-scaling-gnome-linux http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/enable-fractional-scaling...

lima 9y ago
That's very cool. For users of older Gnome versions, note that you can change both the font scaling (text-scaling-factor) and global UI scaling factors. If you, like me, have a screen that needs 1.5 scale, you can either set UI scale to 1 and font scale to 1.5, or UI scale to 2 and font scale to 0.5. That's almost as good as real fractional UI scaling.
- jacek 9y ago
  I have the same problem - 14 inch WQHD screen. I use 1x UI scaling, 1.6x font scaling. I also made a custom css for GTK that resizes window decorations/buttons that make them more usable. The solution is not perfect though. I am having some problems with Qt apps. Fractional scaling on 3.28 will allow you to have different scaling for each display. Will also be more consistent across different apps (Gtk, Qt, electron, etc.).
  - lima 9y ago
    Qt works fine for me. Have you set your Xft DPI? $ cat .Xresources Xft.dpi: 144 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintslight Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.rgba: none Xcursor.size: 48 Xcursor.theme: Adwaita
    - jacek 9y ago
      Thanks lima. .Xresources does not work on Wayland. In my case Qt apps work ok until I connect an external display. Here's before/after: https://imgur.com/a/bJb0J https://imgur.com/a/bJb0J
      - lima 9y ago
        Ow. Can't help with Wayland :( It does work with X11 for me.
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  - noir_lord 9y ago
    Same, 2560x1440@14" scaling at 1.6. Numix window decorations scale (where Arc doesn't) - I use Numix anyway so it works out, can't wait for proper fractional scaling since I'm a cinnamon user we'l likely get it around the same time.
- Spivak 9y ago
  It's almost as good for office work but it will completely tank your graphics performance.
rhodysurf 9y ago
Playing with it now and it works awesome for GTK apps. Sublime Text fonts get a little blurry when using a fractional scale though which is a little annoying.

by jacek 9y ago

lima 9y ago

That's very cool. For users of older Gnome versions, note that you can change both the font scaling (text-scaling-factor) and global UI scaling factors. If you, like me, have a screen that needs 1.5 scale, you can either set UI scale to 1 and font scale to 1.5, or UI scale to 2 and font scale to 0.5. That's almost as good as real fractional UI scaling.

jacek 9y ago
I have the same problem - 14 inch WQHD screen. I use 1x UI scaling, 1.6x font scaling. I also made a custom css for GTK that resizes window decorations/buttons that make them more usable. The solution is not perfect though. I am having some problems with Qt apps. Fractional scaling on 3.28 will allow you to have different scaling for each display. Will also be more consistent across different apps (Gtk, Qt, electron, etc.).
- lima 9y ago
  Qt works fine for me. Have you set your Xft DPI? $ cat .Xresources Xft.dpi: 144 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintslight Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.rgba: none Xcursor.size: 48 Xcursor.theme: Adwaita
  - jacek 9y ago
    Thanks lima. .Xresources does not work on Wayland. In my case Qt apps work ok until I connect an external display. Here's before/after: https://imgur.com/a/bJb0J https://imgur.com/a/bJb0J
    - lima 9y ago
      Ow. Can't help with Wayland :( It does work with X11 for me.
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- noir_lord 9y ago
  Same, 2560x1440@14" scaling at 1.6. Numix window decorations scale (where Arc doesn't) - I use Numix anyway so it works out, can't wait for proper fractional scaling since I'm a cinnamon user we'l likely get it around the same time.
Spivak 9y ago
It's almost as good for office work but it will completely tank your graphics performance.

rhodysurf 9y ago

Playing with it now and it works awesome for GTK apps. Sublime Text fonts get a little blurry when using a fractional scale though which is a little annoying.