> System76 with Pop_OS! has an opportunity to tackle topics head on like "we can make fractional scaling work somewhat decently across all apps" (IIUC currently

> System76 with Pop_OS! has an opportunity to tackle topics head on like "we can make fractional scaling work somewhat decently across all apps" (IIUC currently requires shipping a forked XWayland, unfortunately) I'm excited to see System76's implementation of fractional scaling in this new desktop environment. Since they have actually sold laptops with 1080p and sometimes 4K displays, they have a real incentive to get this feature working smoothly on Wayland. System76 previously developed a HiDPI daemon for X11 to be used with GNOME Shell: - Blog post: https://blog.system76.com/post/174414833678/all-about-the-hidpi-daemon https://blog.system76.com/post/174414833678/all-about-the-hi... - Help page: https://support.system76.com/articles/hidpi-multi-monitor/ https://support.system76.com/articles/hidpi-multi-monitor/ - Source: https://github.com/pop-os/hidpi-daemon https://github.com/pop-os/hidpi-daemon It handles multiple scaling factors, including fractional ones, flawlessly across displays. If the next version of COSMIC supports fractional scaling on Wayland as well as this daemon does on X11, this alone would make the entire project worthwhile. GNOME Shell still hides fine-grained fractional scaling behind an experimental flag for both X11 and Wayland,[1] with X11 needing a patch for Mutter.[2] [1] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-enable-hidpi-fractional-scaling.html https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-enable-hidpi-fr... [2] https://github.com/puxplaying/mutter-x11-scaling https://github.com/puxplaying/mutter-x11-scaling