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> If you're using a high-DPI monitor [...] I use a standard 110-DPI monitor (at 200% scaling in Gnome) FWIW, I'm using a 184 DPI monitor with 150% scaling. >
by gucci-on-fleek 8mo ago
> If you're using a high-DPI monitor [...] I use a standard 110-DPI monitor (at 200% scaling in Gnome)
FWIW, I'm using a 184 DPI monitor with 150% scaling.
> you might not notice the blurriness. [...]
> Compared to the contents of a browser's viewport, Emacs and the apps that come with Gnome are visually simple, so it took me a year or 2 to notice
I'm pretty sensitive to font rendering issues—to the point where I've complained to publishers about their PDFs having unhinted fonts—so I think that I would have noticed it, but if it's really as subtle as you say, then maybe I haven't.
I do have a somewhat unusual setup though: I'm currently using
$ gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer','xwayland-native-scaling']"
although that might not be required any more with recent versions. I've also enabled full hinting and subpixel antialiasing with Gnome Tweaks, and I've set the following environment variables:
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
GDK_BACKEND=wayland,x11,*
CLUTTER_BACKEND=gdk,wayland
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=wayland
ECORE_EVAS_ENGINE=wayland_egl
ELM_ENGINE=wayland_egl
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=1
So maybe one of those settings would improve things for you? I've randomly accumulated most of these settings over the years, so I unfortunately can't really explain what (if anything) any of them do.
> Yes, Chrome's entire window can be quite blurry if Xwayland is involved, but it now talks to Wayland by default
Ah, good to hear that that's finally the default; that probably means that I can safely remove my custom wrapper scripts that forced those flags on.
- hollerith 8mo agoDo you notice blurriness on MacOS when the Settings app (name?) has been used to change the scaling factor to a fractional value?
- gucci-on-fleek 8mo agoSorry, but I haven't ever used a Mac, so I unfortunately can't answer that. I've used Windows with fractional scaling, and most programs aren't blurry there, but the few that don't support fractional scaling are really blurry.
- hollerith 8mo agoThat's an accurate summary of my experience with Windows, too.