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Wayland has still no way to set DPI of multiple monitors. The fonts look terrible on it. I had to move to KDE Plasma on X11 ever since GNOME started forcing Way

Wayland has still no way to set DPI of multiple monitors. The fonts look terrible on it. I had to move to KDE Plasma on X11 ever since GNOME started forcing Wayland on us. I guess I have to buy a 4K monitor in future.

sapiogram 11mo ago
I thought this problem was Wayland's reason for existing?
- hatmanstack 11mo ago
  Nah mate, it's all about the Wayland Trust model. No keylogging, consent-based screen recording, and no window spying. Isolation.
  - StillBored 11mo ago
    https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xextproto/security.html https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xextproto/security.ht... Notice the date.. 1996 (for those that didn't click the link, that is the X11 security extension which address all that, and it was published ~30 years ago).
nhumrich 11mo ago
Sure it does. I have that set right now... Fonts looking terrible seems to only be when using an x app on wayland
- thewebguyd 11mo ago
  > Fonts looking terrible seems to only be when using an x app on wayland I suspect the original commenter had an issue with GNOME specifically, as I've noticed it too, on Wayland native apps. GNOME handled fractional scaling poorly, and fonts didn't align to the grid right and looked fuzzy at anything that's not 1x or 2x scale. KDE got this right from day 1.
- kanbankaren 11mo ago
  How to do it? I am not talking about fractional scaling.
  - nhumrich 11mo ago
    Display settings in kde
thewebguyd 11mo ago
If you haven't tried KDE on Wayland in a while, do try it. Fonts looking terrible on Wayland was a GNOME thing, and KDE/Kwin handles display scaling and mixed DPI fine, GNOME/Mutter didn't until very recently. KDE had the setting to allow X11 apps to scale themselves (no more blurry XWayland apps) years ahead of GNOME.
kronicum2025 11mo ago
You can. KDE Wayland allows you to even set fractional scaling. I had 125% on one monitor and 100% on three others. all work like a chgarm
- kanbankaren 11mo ago
  How did you arrive at 125%? What is the formula? Just eyeballing? I set DPI so that a 15pt font occupies 15pt physical space on screen. Not sure how to set DPI using fractional scaling.
  - electroly 11mo ago
    The formula is DPI ÷ 96. 100% is 96 dpi, 125% is 120 dpi.
    - kanbankaren 11mo ago
      My monitor DPI is 70. 70/96 is 0.73, but there doesn't seem to be a way to set 73%?
      - electroly 11mo ago
        You might be out of luck. I don't think it's possible to set the scaling lower than 100%. DPI scaling is primarily concerned with high-DPI.
        kanbankaren 11mo ago
        That is why some of us still need X11 support.
      - kronicum2025 11mo ago
        I could set my screen to 75%, not really 73% but close may be?
        11mo ago
maeln 11mo ago
> Wayland has still no way to set DPI of multiple monitors. It does, but not every DE expose that functionality. There is some command that should be DE-agnostic like wlr-randr that should allow you to do that.

sapiogram 11mo ago

I thought this problem was Wayland's reason for existing?

hatmanstack 11mo ago
Nah mate, it's all about the Wayland Trust model. No keylogging, consent-based screen recording, and no window spying. Isolation.
- StillBored 11mo ago
  https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xextproto/security.html https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xextproto/security.ht... Notice the date.. 1996 (for those that didn't click the link, that is the X11 security extension which address all that, and it was published ~30 years ago).

nhumrich 11mo ago

Sure it does. I have that set right now... Fonts looking terrible seems to only be when using an x app on wayland

thewebguyd 11mo ago
> Fonts looking terrible seems to only be when using an x app on wayland I suspect the original commenter had an issue with GNOME specifically, as I've noticed it too, on Wayland native apps. GNOME handled fractional scaling poorly, and fonts didn't align to the grid right and looked fuzzy at anything that's not 1x or 2x scale. KDE got this right from day 1.
kanbankaren 11mo ago
How to do it? I am not talking about fractional scaling.
- nhumrich 11mo ago
  Display settings in kde

thewebguyd 11mo ago

If you haven't tried KDE on Wayland in a while, do try it. Fonts looking terrible on Wayland was a GNOME thing, and KDE/Kwin handles display scaling and mixed DPI fine, GNOME/Mutter didn't until very recently. KDE had the setting to allow X11 apps to scale themselves (no more blurry XWayland apps) years ahead of GNOME.

kronicum2025 11mo ago

You can. KDE Wayland allows you to even set fractional scaling. I had 125% on one monitor and 100% on three others. all work like a chgarm

kanbankaren 11mo ago
How did you arrive at 125%? What is the formula? Just eyeballing? I set DPI so that a 15pt font occupies 15pt physical space on screen. Not sure how to set DPI using fractional scaling.
- electroly 11mo ago
  The formula is DPI ÷ 96. 100% is 96 dpi, 125% is 120 dpi.
  - kanbankaren 11mo ago
    My monitor DPI is 70. 70/96 is 0.73, but there doesn't seem to be a way to set 73%?
    - electroly 11mo ago
      You might be out of luck. I don't think it's possible to set the scaling lower than 100%. DPI scaling is primarily concerned with high-DPI.
      - kanbankaren 11mo ago
        That is why some of us still need X11 support.
    - kronicum2025 11mo ago
      I could set my screen to 75%, not really 73% but close may be?
      - 11mo ago

maeln 11mo ago

> Wayland has still no way to set DPI of multiple monitors. It does, but not every DE expose that functionality. There is some command that should be DE-agnostic like wlr-randr that should allow you to do that.