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by bsder 209 days ago
> Maybe some graphics nerds with weird monitor setups are geeking out about fractional pixel coordinates and multiple refresh rates.

They're complaining too because Wayland upscales everything (quadrupling the number of pixels and trashing performance) in order to downscale it for fractional scaling.
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noisem4ker 208 days ago
Support for rendering directly at the target resolution has been there for years, at least in major compositors such as KDE's KWin and GNOME's Mutter.

https://wayland.app/protocols/fractional-scale-v1

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hulitu 209 days ago
> They're complaining too because Wayland upscales everything (quadrupling the number of pixels and trashing performance) in order to downscale it for fractional scaling.

Only once ? They could do this 3 times. For smoothness. /s

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