Neal Gompa wrote:
> Or 3. you could go ask for the feature to be exposed, because in
> Wayland, we have more flexibility on how outputs are managed at all.
Well, Plasma has had decades to get multiple outputs and scaling working. It
has always been a lost cause. (At least for the one configuration I care
about, which is mirrored displays stretched to display identical contents no
matter the aspect ratio, for presentations and meetings.) The introduction
of the XRandR X11 extension has been a godsend. Ever since, the one way to
get things working has always been to talk to XRandR directly over the CLI
and bypass Plasma entirely. Even fractional scaling on X11 is a non-issue if
you just let X11 do the scaling, so that neither Plasma nor the applications
even realize that their display is being scaled, let alone that it is being
fractionally scaled with a different fraction horizontally and vertically.
They just see a framebuffer of the size they want, and everything is scaled
by X11/XRandR behind their back. So it just works. (Yes, it is blurry and/or
some pixels are lost. But it does not look that bad in practice.)
Unfortunately, this is not an option in Wayland because there is no X server
that can do the scaling behind Plasma's back under Wayland.
Kevin Kofler
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