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Do XWayland programs still scale incorrectly when using dpi scaling in wayland? This thwarted my last serious attempt to switch to sway.

• Gigachad 3y ago
  Only if you have two monitors at different DPI scales which is impossible on x11 iirc.
  • destructionator 3y ago
    You can do it with client side scaling in X (which is also the preferred solution on systems like Windows, since an application can scale itself better than a generic compositor anyway).
    • slondr 3y ago
      Hmm, how does that work if you move clients around between displays?
      • destructionator 3y ago
        The client is given an XConfigureEvent when it is moved and can compare it against the monitor's bounding boxes (which it caches in between xrandr change notifications) and rescale itself. Doesn't work with legacy applications... but neither does Wayland so you aren't really behind.
• clhodapp 3y ago
  If your frustration was that x11 apps are really blurry then: Yes, unless you use kwin as your compositor and tell it to let x11 apps scale themselves.
  • akvadrako 3y ago
    Gnome also supports this; it's how I have it configured.
  • slondr 3y ago
    KDE on Wayland does not even launch when my e-gpu is plugged in, so, with that in mind, I guess I'll be sticking with X11 for the foreseeable future.
    • clhodapp 3y ago
      Ah, I'm not surprised, sadly: KDE has been buggy for me in so many ways ever since they made Plasma...