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Even when run under Wayland, VSCode looks blurry with a scaling of 150%... Wayland advocates love to mention that the real issue is using fractional scaling at

Even when run under Wayland, VSCode looks blurry with a scaling of 150%... Wayland advocates love to mention that the real issue is using fractional scaling at all, but Windows and macOS can deal with it just fine.

JoshTriplett 5y ago
> Even when run under Wayland, VSCode looks blurry with a scaling of 150%... It shouldn't when running natively; it should render everything at the correct size rather than scaling them. X apps get blurry because they're rendered large and downscaled; that shouldn't happen for native Wayland apps.
commoner 5y ago
VSCode/VSCodium should render sharply with fractional scaling on Wayland, as long as you run the application with these command line options:[1] --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland You probably want to update your desktop entries to lock in these options by default.[2] [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Visual_Studio_Code#Running_natively_under_Wayland https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Visual_Studio_Code#Running_... [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries
pullitoutur 5y ago
This is complete uninformed crap. I'm sitting here with 180% scaling with VSCode and Firefox rendered perfectly. You clearly don't realize that you need to run VSCode with a couple flags to get it running under Wayland. And if you had any idea what you're talking about, you'd realize that for non-XWayland apps, Linux HIDPI support is basically guaranteedly better. I can sit here and arbitrarily hot-change the scaling resolution of my three monitors, independently, on the fly, in arbitrary increments (I happen to use 10%) and every single app is re-rendered natively. Mac OS X and Windows flat out can't do that and further, do not come anywhere near the fidelity given the workarounds they have to do for all sorts of proprietary software in the wild. (Gotta love the two main hating points of Linux right now that ultimately just bottom out on Nvidia and Google dragging their feet, for their own reasons.)

JoshTriplett 5y ago

> Even when run under Wayland, VSCode looks blurry with a scaling of 150%... It shouldn't when running natively; it should render everything at the correct size rather than scaling them. X apps get blurry because they're rendered large and downscaled; that shouldn't happen for native Wayland apps.

commoner 5y ago

VSCode/VSCodium should render sharply with fractional scaling on Wayland, as long as you run the application with these command line options:[1] --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland You probably want to update your desktop entries to lock in these options by default.[2] [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Visual_Studio_Code#Running_natively_under_Wayland https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Visual_Studio_Code#Running_... [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries

pullitoutur 5y ago

This is complete uninformed crap. I'm sitting here with 180% scaling with VSCode and Firefox rendered perfectly. You clearly don't realize that you need to run VSCode with a couple flags to get it running under Wayland. And if you had any idea what you're talking about, you'd realize that for non-XWayland apps, Linux HIDPI support is basically guaranteedly better. I can sit here and arbitrarily hot-change the scaling resolution of my three monitors, independently, on the fly, in arbitrary increments (I happen to use 10%) and every single app is re-rendered natively. Mac OS X and Windows flat out can't do that and further, do not come anywhere near the fidelity given the workarounds they have to do for all sorts of proprietary software in the wild. (Gotta love the two main hating points of Linux right now that ultimately just bottom out on Nvidia and Google dragging their feet, for their own reasons.)