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by fluffything 2040 days ago
All apps I use have a problem. Slack, Zoom, Chrome, Emacs, LibreOffice.

The only app I use that doesn't have a problem is Alacritty, which is the terminal emulator I kind of have to use to avoid this problem. Other terminal emulators I've tried do have this problem.
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pedrocr 2040 days ago
Anything that's GTK and Qt based will definitely be Wayland native and thus not have the XWayland issue with fractional scaling. So Libreoffice works fine and so does gnome-terminal. I use those daily. If you have problems with those there's something else wrong.

For the other examples it's probably XWayland scaling at 1x and then being scaled up instead of 2x and down. The patches to fix that exist but I'm not sure where they're already merged in. All those apps except Emacs should go Wayland native in the next few months though.

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fluffything 2037 days ago
> will definitely be

Sure, eventually, that will be the case.

But right now, most GTK apps are not Wayland native and look bad on Wayland. Those that are Wayland native have so many bugs on Wayland that they are still objectively significantly worse than their Xorg alternatives.

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pedrocr 2037 days ago
That's not what I was saying. To clarify, everything that's GTK and Qt is already Wayland native and scales just fine. It's also not true at all that everything is full of bugs and unusable. In fact I can only think of a single Wayland-specific bug in a GTK app, and it's already fixed.
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