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I have a ZFS on root Arch setup, unfortunately Gnome 3 is such garbage nowadays that I hardly ever use it. It still doesn’t do display scaling correctly for 4K

I have a ZFS on root Arch setup, unfortunately Gnome 3 is such garbage nowadays that I hardly ever use it. It still doesn’t do display scaling correctly for 4K and it just crashes all the time.

vetinari 9y ago
There is something seriously wrong with your setup.
- rhinoceraptor 9y ago
  AFAICT, my issue isn't mine alone, Gnome 3 likes to crash when the display is disconnected. Some quick googling shows many other users with the same issue. I have my monitors hooked up to a wifi plug to turn them both off. I'm running linux-lts and the proprietary nvidia LTS driver (on a GTX 1070), along with all the LTS versions of SPL, zfs, etc. Never had a problem with system stability, just Gnome. And the display scaling issue, I have 2x28" 4k monitors which means I need fractional scaling. 1x is too small, 2x is too big. Windows can do it, macOS does it, but Gnome does not. I thought this was supposed to be fixed by Canonical for 18.04 but that seems less and less likely. There's supposed to be a way to fiddle with xrandr but with two monitors I've never been able to get it to work.
  - vetinari 9y ago
    Fedora here, never had any crash. However, my laptops are Intel GPU only which hotplug just fine, and the desktop, when it had an Nvidia card had no need to be hot plugged. Are you sure it is Gnome crashing, and not X server disappearing from under it? I also have 27" 4k. Under X11, it is not Gnome's job to do framebuffer scaling, it is display server's. Under Wayland it is, because then the Mutter compositor is the display server. So if you want macos-style framebuffer scaling under X11, use xrandr (i.e.: xrandr --display DP-2 --scale 1.15x1.15). For the above reason, the scaling coming with Gnome 3.28 is for Wayland only - and that means no Nvidia, until they sort out their API issues.

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I have a ZFS on root Arch setup, unfortunately Gnome 3 is such garbage nowadays that I hardly ever use it. It still doesn’t do display scaling correctly for 4K

by rhinoceraptor 9y ago

I have a ZFS on root Arch setup, unfortunately Gnome 3 is such garbage nowadays that I hardly ever use it. It still doesn’t do display scaling correctly for 4K and it just crashes all the time.

vetinari 9y ago
There is something seriously wrong with your setup.
- rhinoceraptor 9y ago
  AFAICT, my issue isn't mine alone, Gnome 3 likes to crash when the display is disconnected. Some quick googling shows many other users with the same issue. I have my monitors hooked up to a wifi plug to turn them both off. I'm running linux-lts and the proprietary nvidia LTS driver (on a GTX 1070), along with all the LTS versions of SPL, zfs, etc. Never had a problem with system stability, just Gnome. And the display scaling issue, I have 2x28" 4k monitors which means I need fractional scaling. 1x is too small, 2x is too big. Windows can do it, macOS does it, but Gnome does not. I thought this was supposed to be fixed by Canonical for 18.04 but that seems less and less likely. There's supposed to be a way to fiddle with xrandr but with two monitors I've never been able to get it to work.
  - vetinari 9y ago
    Fedora here, never had any crash. However, my laptops are Intel GPU only which hotplug just fine, and the desktop, when it had an Nvidia card had no need to be hot plugged. Are you sure it is Gnome crashing, and not X server disappearing from under it? I also have 27" 4k. Under X11, it is not Gnome's job to do framebuffer scaling, it is display server's. Under Wayland it is, because then the Mutter compositor is the display server. So if you want macos-style framebuffer scaling under X11, use xrandr (i.e.: xrandr --display DP-2 --scale 1.15x1.15). For the above reason, the scaling coming with Gnome 3.28 is for Wayland only - and that means no Nvidia, until they sort out their API issues.