[throwaway84742]

No fractional scaling still. ‍️Why?

[skriticos2]

There is an experimental feature that enables it on Gnome with Wayland [1]. The result is off in various ways though (blurry things here and there, some weird positioning). At least on my Fedora install I just keep it at 100% on my 4k 30" screen and then use the tweak tool to adjust font sizes to 150%. That works reasonably well and as a benefit makes those huge title-bars not so huge any more.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/enable-fractional-scalin...

[augustl]

Afaik they rolled back wayland, 18.04 uses Xorg. So maybe that's why.

[jhasse]

Because it's a hard issue to solve.

[throwaway84742]

It’s already solved in 16.04 though. They have _removed_ support for it in this case.

[jhasse]

Unity's approach introduced some visual glitches due to rounding errors and didn't work with multiple monitors (with different dpi), I wouldn't call that "solved".

[throwaway84742]

It solved the practical “80%” use case: single HiDPI monitor. That’s strictly better than the current, utterly busted state of things.

[jhasse]

True, but I can see why they went for the 100% solution this time, which they couldn't finish for 18.04.