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[Feature Request] Allow display scaling in monitor-preferences to have values between 100% and 200% #666

Closed m007x closed 5 months ago

m007x commented 5 months ago

[Control Centre > Displays]

I think it will be a nice feature to have scaling values between 100% and 200%. Examples of this are: 100% 125% 150% and 200%.

lukefromdc commented 5 months ago

That is fractional scaling and is quite complicated to implement in x11. All monitor-preferences is is a frontend to xrandr. I think GTK4 supports (at least to some extent) fractional scaling but I am not sure. GTK3 either does not or it is very limited, again not sure. To be able to do this from monitor-preferences, the value passed to Xrandr would have to get usable results.

Fractional scaling does work fine in wayland at least with the wayfire compositor.