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by commoner 1689 days ago
> With X, all monitors must share the same pix density

To get proper fractional scaling on X11 with monitors of different pixel densities, you'll want to use either:

1. GNOME Shell with a patched version of Mutter, which is included by default in Ubuntu[1] and its derivatives (such as Pop!_OS and elementary OS). Manjaro also offers the patched version of Mutter as the mutter-x11-scaling package.[2] You'll need to enable the x11-randr-fractional-scaling experimental feature for any of these distros.[3]

2. Cinnamon, included by default in Linux Mint

To get proper fractional scaling on Wayland, you also have two options:

1. GNOME Shell (no patch needed), with the scale-monitor-framebuffer experimental feature enabled[3]

2. KDE Plasma, which is still a little bit buggy on Wayland

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/mutter/-/blob/ubuntu/mas...

[2] https://github.com/puxplaying/mutter-x11-scaling

[3] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/enable-fractional-scalin...