GNOME 3.36 Lands Scaled/Transformed Hardware Cursors Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME 3.36 Lands Scaled/Transformed Hardware Cursors Support

Landing just in time for GNOME 3.36 is a merge request that has been open for nearly one year on improving Mutter's hardware cursor handling...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.36-Hardware-Cursors

[joepadmiraal]

I see scaling being used a lot as more people are getting 4k displays.

[Hibbelharry]

I do use a 27" 4K Display at home, and tend to do some slight upscaling, too. 200% would be far too much, but 100% is somtimes a bit tiny. I don't think that's a pure notebook issue.

[skeevy420]

I'm backwards. I need downscaling so my monitors under 1080p can still be useful in an era where 1920 wide is expected. Using Xrandr to do it results in blurry fonts.

[ipsirc]

Any picture or video of it?

[skeevy420]

Any picture or video of it?

[Volta]

At first have I hoped it will fix a mouse lag issue under Wayland, but I guess it will not.

[royce]

joepadmiraal Agree that it might be useful when 14 inch laptops get 4k screens.

Anybody using 1080p 13" laptop displays, or 1440p 15" will be needing fractional scaling. Doesn't have to be 4K. It's my number 1 reason for needing wayland, otherwise I wouldn't care.

[Volta]

Volta I see no lag on Fedora 32 devel with latest GNOME snapshot.

Good to know. Maybe it's resolved in 3.36.

[ElectricPrism]

4k user for years here. 27" 4k was too small (makes you squint), 32" was okay, but could be bigger. 43" was okay but a little too big. 40" is what I'm on now and is okayish for 100% scale tiling with various code editors open.

I think I would settle for 36" as the optimal size after 4? years of usage. I can't even imagine buying under 27" and using fractional/centennial scaling. To me scaling the interface defeats the purpose of having such a resolution.