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by pkolaczk 1558 days ago
> And Wayland supports HiDPI with fractured scaling very well

Very well only for the apps that cooperate well, e.g. GTK-based apps.

Non-native apps (eg IntelliJ Idea) on my Ubuntu desktop were blurry when I used any kind of scaling - not just fractional scaling but any scaling != 100%. Reducing the display resolution by 2x resulted in much crispier rendering than full resolution with 2x scaling for those apps.

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I think that's because "non-native" apps run inside an X server running as a Wayland client. So you're basically getting the X experience :/
That's not the case, intellij text rendering looks perfect on X/Gnome with fractional scaling (at least for me)
But you are still using it as an X app, which uses X configs over wayland’s.