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KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future
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Honestly for the best. X11 was great for what it was, but Wayland is the future. XWayland covers X11 apps that haven't been ported yet.
Now I just wish Cinnamon would hurry up and move to fully default Wayland.
Who would have thought the people who code X11 thought it was dated.
It may be the future, but it's unusable for me.
I have a high dpi screen. Upscaling does not perfectly work for me in every program, but simply setting it to Full HD does work and looks fine.
However, when I set it to the lower resolution in Wayland, I have 50% of the display active with black bars all around.
So far, there seems to be no fix for this?
Same thing happens if you start older, lower resolution fullscreen apps (retro games and such).
I've had many similar issues with Wayland. Not thrilled that nearly everyone is throwing in the towel on X11 support.
Which desktop are you using? The high dpi experience is desktop dependent until every one supports fractional scaling
I tried it on KDE (or rather, it forced me to after it simply updated to Wayland by default). I tried to set it up correctly, but it just didn't quite work.
I also need no fractional scaling, but dome software does not honor that anyway (e.g. VST interfaces).
Simply reducing the resolution is a simple fix, also easier on the GPU, but Wayland will not fill the screen and intead just shows the tiny original 1:1 image in the middle.
Are you sure that's not a monitor setting?
Yes, it fills the screen the moment I select the X11 session. I even looked it up, Wayland just can't do it.