In 2024, with GNOME 45, Wayland, and 1.25 fractional scaling, regular DPI displays still look better than HiDPI displays. This is a photo of Discord on two laptops side by side.
The blurry one is the HiDPI display from Framework 13. The sharp one is a regular DPI display from Dell XPS 13. Both laptops.
The difference is even more stark in person.
Even the screenshots from the Framework are blurrier than the screen shots from the Dell.
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This is an Xwayland and Electron issue, not a Discord or Gnome or a Display issue. This is because Electron under Xwayland (and also somewhat under Wayland) doesn’t behave well with fractional scaling. If you want a true comparison, try opening Discord on Firefox with Wayland. It will be night and day in terms of sharpness compared to regular DPI displays
There’s no useful information to glean from this image other than the fact that we finally found someone who uses light mode on Discord.
I generally prefer light mode (I got lemmy on light mode for example) but certain apps like steam or discord just always were dark mode so I prefer them like that now lol
Tell me you have no idea what you are doing, without telling me you have no idea what you are doing.
“The blurry one” bro, which one is blurry or sharp. You never said left or right and assume we persieve things like you do
Non integer display scaling will always look like crap. Either set the scaling to 1 or 2 if you want it to look sharp. It’s better to increase font and icon sizes if they are too small.
Non integer display scaling will always look like crap.
No it won’t, Windows has had this figured out for at least a decade
Apple, too. The 2012 MacBook Pro had a high DPI display, and everything scales normally even when dragging windows over to non-HiDPI external monitors.
That’s not even getting into the mobile OSes, which have to deal with nonstandard display sizes and resolutions all the time, across multiple settings for accessibility.
Either set the scaling to 1 or 2 if you want it to look sharp
I just switched the scale to 2x on the Framework and it also looks blurry. Actually, I wanna say the Framework display at 2x is worse than at 1.25x… I can see more of the fuzz around the fonts now. Framework at 2x on the left, Dell XPS 13 with the font size increased on the right.
It’s better to increase font and icon sizes if they are too small.
I haven’t tried this, but seems logical.
Coming from a Dell XPS 13 where everything Just Works ™ , I’m bummed Framework’s choice for display isn’t Linux compatible. I might just end up returning the Framework, the blurry fonts are messing with my eyes…
Did you make sure to disable fractional scaling before setting the 200% setting? If not, then it’s not an actual integer scaling and it will have the same issues as other non integer scales
Framework’s choice for display isn’t Linux compatible.
They really should have set the option
Make_Discord_Blurry_On_Framework_Laptopsto"false"in the Linux kernel.
The Arch Wiki gives good tips on what environment variables to set to make sure that your GUIs are running with Wayland native and not XWayland. I have a Framework and I don’t have any blurry text issues, and I’ve done all the settings in this section.
Did you enable subpixel font rendering and mess with the hinting?
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Both of these are perfectly legible.
Have you gone outside this week?
I really wish the framework had an easy to replace screen the way the other components are. some sort of lock in place kind of thing.
Text and vector graphics should scale quite well. There are some cases where fractional scaling doesn’t work out, for example on borders that are 1 pixel wide @1x. Do you render them 2 pixels wide @1.5x, or 1 pixel? I have a Windows system for work and 1.5x scaling in Firefox renders buttons uneven, so the borders are thicker on some sides and thinner on others.
Fractional scaling isn’t the best solution, but even with most desktop displays transitioning from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 we get fractional scaling. Sucks that 5120x2880 isn’t more mainstream for ~27" displays.
Sucks that 5120x2880 isn’t more mainstream for ~27" displays
I’ve been waiting for so long for a OLED/mini LED 27" 5K display with >=120Hz… Would be an almost instant buy from me… I don’t care if I need a new GPU, I can scale my game to 1440p and it will look just like it does now: fine!
I fear that at these resolutions we will discover that UI frameworks are not really scalable in terms of performance
I use 200% on my laptop and its fine
I would avoid fractional scaling in general
