Sorry to reanimate an otherwise dead topic but flipping through ArchLinux documentation for GNOME I came across a smart yet cheap trick to obtain an equivalent effect to fractional scaling:
- set
/org/gnome/desktop/interface/scaling-factor
to 2 (telling the window server to zoom in)
- run
xrandr --output eDP1 --scale 1.80x1.80
(post-processing with xandr to zoom out -- 1.80 just a placeholder, the bigger the number the more significant the zoomout)
Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#Fractional_Scaling
Problem is: on my 140+ dpi laptop this solution is almost worst than the problem it is supposed to solve, namely to scale up programs menu on which Budgie settings have no power in order to avoid disasters like this , look at the size of text of the tabs please 🙁
The solution is worst in the sense that:
- pointer values (mouse acceleration etc.) are now totally useless
- fonts render terribly (i.e. text in Opera becomes blurry)
- rendering lags starts to occur.
I know this problem does not exist in Wayland, but if the devs could do something about it every user who bought their laptop after 2010 would live a happier life.