New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland

A merge request was opened this week for plumbing fractional scaling support for XWayland clients running on the GNOME Mutter compositor...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-XWayland-Frac-Scaling

[fluke]

So... We'll see it in a couple of years then.

[MastaG]

So... We'll see it in a couple of years then.

Probably more.

[fafreeman]

So... We'll see it in a couple of years then.

probably if vrr is any indication.

[Quackdoc]

Gnome supporting something people as for!? heresy!

[r1348]

About time, so maybe Steam will understand the correct resolution of my 4k 32" monitor, I have to disable fractional scaling every time I want to play.

[andyprough]

So... We'll see it in a couple of years then.

Reminds me of a sign that we used to see in some stores when I was young - "If we don't have it, then you probably didn't really need it anyway."

[You-]

Reminds me of a sign that we used to see in some stores when I was young - "If we don't have it, then you probably didn't really need it anyway."

That is probably solved by a different merge request that is already merged for gnome 46: https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]

[Linuxhippy]

Reminds me of a sign that we used to see in some stores when I was young - "If we don't have it, then you probably didn't really need it anyway."

When I decided to replace XFCE, I gave gnome a short try - and switched to KDE (for different reasons but one of them was the lack of fractional scaling in gnome).
Don't let some "friendly dictators" mess with you by telling what you need and what you dont.

In the end they denied for years the need for fractional scaling - and made users suffer.
I wonder what all the fight against it was good for after all.

[hf_139]

The merge request isn't done yet, it is a draft. And once it's finished, it takes RedHat employees up to 18 years to accept it.

It's better to use a Desktop Environment that already has this, like KDE, rather than waiting for the dead project that is GNOME.