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It sounds like you hit the point in Linux where this is painful: mixed DPI displays with mixed display scaling. Wayland fixes that. And soon, we'll finally have

It sounds like you hit the point in Linux where this is painful: mixed DPI displays with mixed display scaling. Wayland fixes that. And soon, we'll finally have fractional scaling, too. GNOME is close to delivering that. So, it's getting better.

Waterluvian 8y ago
That's the best thing I've heard all week. Thank you!
matwood 8y ago
Finally! When I was searching for solutions to this issue a couple of years ago one response was 'no one needs 4k displays' smh.
- pfranz 8y ago
  I've always heard these were fundamental problems because of how X is architected. Something like everything assumes the desktop is a single, contiguous grid. Everyone built tooling top of X and tried to mitigate the problems. I thought it was odd when Apple got a lot of heat for not using X and writing their own thing. It sounds like Apple had evaluated X and determined it wouldn't fit their needs. The same thing happened when things like Wayland started getting written.
cmurf 8y ago
15" Laptop has a 1920x1080 display that's not quite hidpi. So I'm using layout.css.devPixelsPerPx value in about:config of 1.4, and in GNOME Settings > Accessibility, enable large text. This does make things a bit too big on the 24" external display which has nearly the same resolution, but it's not distracting. Some websites I use CTRL-+ and CTRL-- to change the scaling, or rather fine tune it, depending on more than +-20% and the rendering gets wonky. Firefox seems to remember this per site even after a relaunch or reboot. The biggest problem I have is Bluetooth, my mouse is always disconnecting on Linux, dozens of times per day, but the same laptop+mouse rebooted to Windows 10 - no problem.
- int0x80 8y ago
  My bluetooth mouse (logitec) works very well. Never disconnects. But it does fail to properly suspend. I need to switch the BT off to suspend, because it will automatically restart the system when it is connected. I haven't searched for a solution, I'm sure there is one involving /sys and a pre suspend hook etc.
erik_seaberg 8y ago
Doesn't Wayland still rely on X for remoting?

Waterluvian 8y ago

That's the best thing I've heard all week. Thank you!

matwood 8y ago

Finally! When I was searching for solutions to this issue a couple of years ago one response was 'no one needs 4k displays' smh.

pfranz 8y ago
I've always heard these were fundamental problems because of how X is architected. Something like everything assumes the desktop is a single, contiguous grid. Everyone built tooling top of X and tried to mitigate the problems. I thought it was odd when Apple got a lot of heat for not using X and writing their own thing. It sounds like Apple had evaluated X and determined it wouldn't fit their needs. The same thing happened when things like Wayland started getting written.

cmurf 8y ago

15" Laptop has a 1920x1080 display that's not quite hidpi. So I'm using layout.css.devPixelsPerPx value in about:config of 1.4, and in GNOME Settings > Accessibility, enable large text. This does make things a bit too big on the 24" external display which has nearly the same resolution, but it's not distracting. Some websites I use CTRL-+ and CTRL-- to change the scaling, or rather fine tune it, depending on more than +-20% and the rendering gets wonky. Firefox seems to remember this per site even after a relaunch or reboot. The biggest problem I have is Bluetooth, my mouse is always disconnecting on Linux, dozens of times per day, but the same laptop+mouse rebooted to Windows 10 - no problem.

int0x80 8y ago
My bluetooth mouse (logitec) works very well. Never disconnects. But it does fail to properly suspend. I need to switch the BT off to suspend, because it will automatically restart the system when it is connected. I haven't searched for a solution, I'm sure there is one involving /sys and a pre suspend hook etc.

erik_seaberg 8y ago

Doesn't Wayland still rely on X for remoting?