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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I say that the technical merits are irrelevant because I don't believe that they're a major factor any more in most people moving or not moving to Wayland.

With only a slight amount of generalization, none of these people will be moved by Wayland's technical merits. The energetic people who could be persuaded by technical merits to go through switching desktop environments or in some cases replacing hardware (or accepting limited features) have mostly moved to Wayland already. The people who remain on X are there either because they don't want to rebuild their desktop environment, they don't want to do without features and performance they currently have, or their Linux distribution doesn't think their desktop should switch to Wayland yet.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (8 children)

The ability to have multiple displays at different scales is a godsend when trying to use a laptop with a 4k display connected to 1080p monitors or vice versa

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (7 children)

This already works on X and indeed has worked longer than Wayland has existed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I can never get this to work properly... Do you have any resources?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I just passed scale to xrandr after computing the proper scale and then used the nvidia-settings gui to write current configuration to xorg.conf its not incredibly hard basically all you are doing is scaling lower DPI items up to the same resolution as your highest dpi item and letting it scale down the correct physical size. For instance if you have 27' monitors that are 4K and 1080p you just scale the 1080 ones by 2 if you have a 4k 27 and a 1080 24" its closer to 1.75. The correct ratio can be found with your favorite calculator app.

You can set this scaling directly in nvidia-settings come to think of it where you set viewport in and viewport out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not at all the same thing. That requires downscaling some screens, which makes everything blurry and breaks subpixel AA.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is literally how Wayland is scaling your shit you just don't know how anything works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Huh? That is not how Wayland does it at all.

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