2025, the year I switch from wayland to Xorg.

Why? Because I bought a new screen.
Huh? Well, I don't know either.
Plasma 6 on wayland worked fine with my fullhd-screen. Yesterday, I powered the box down, switched to my new hi(gher)dpi screen, powered it on, got the bios post, boot messages, and a black screen instead of sddm. An hour later I found that sddms wayland support is experimental still, so I switched it to X, and got a black screen when my plasma-wayland session was to start. So, switched to plasma-x11 and everything is fine.
Other compositor (tested sway) are fine.

Don't know if it's nixos or plasma, I'll probably try a live usb later.
So yeah, it's the year 2025 and I'm on X. Well, could be worse, could be the other X.

GIMP 3.0 is finally out with GTK 3 user interface, better UI scaling on HiDPI, Wayland support, non-destructive layer effects, color space management, improved file format support, and usability improvements

https://testing.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html#updated-gtk3-user-interface

I officially have a usable Arch Linux with #KDE on my desktop. KDE looks great on a #hidpi display.

Slowly adding back things I used to use on Windows. Installing and configuring stuff is a bit of work, and there are some bumps, but settling after feels nice.

Was playing around with the #MacMini. Hooked up #HDMI to my #4K monitor expecting to be able to use a scaled resolution (in my case, 3072x1728 #HIDPI). Wouldn't work. Only worked in #LODPI. Then I read this article - a little disturbing. Apparently the M4 can't run HIDPI 4K across HDMI. But I CAN run it with a dumb TB -> dongle -> HDMI setup like I was forced to do on the Macbook Air (due to no HDMI port). For real?! That is fucking STUPID. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/for-lg-oled-users-mac-mini-m4-does-not-support-hidpi-4k-over-hdmi-2-1.2442797/

Anyone here using #hidpi scaling under #wayland in any shape or form, besides #plasma? And can compare the two? I am using #labwc as my #wm and I struggle to get as sharp scaling for some apps compared to what #kde does, although I am not sure if it uses the real wayland or #xwayland... everything so confusing. But if anybody has input I would be eager to hear.

HiDPI scaling for Xwayland apps is now merged into Mutter!
Kudos to the developers and everyone who worked on it.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3567

Hacker bunny at work. Bunnies prefer 10" with mushy keyboards and can handle tiny fonts on #HiDPI displays.

I offered carrots but she's hacking just for fun.

Really annoying bug where my mouse pointer is smaller in Firefox only. Anyone else got this? #opensuse #i3wm #hidpi

#DailyStandup (1/2)

Since Friday:

> If I bum @amerl's #FrameworkLaptop then #HiDPI tools are going to improve this weekend.

- Concrete ideas for HiDPI troubleshooting tools
- Tracked down the bug in #Tk that causes some apps (like `git gui`) to not have HiDPI text (while others like `gitk` are unaffected). It's already fixed in 9.y beta, so I need to convince them it's worth backporting to 8.6.z stable.
- Reproduced a bug in the #KDE Plasma6 screen locker that had been closed as fixed.

#DailyStandup

What I did today:
- In Boston for #LibrePlanet!
- Figuring out the flow of data through the gotk4 generator so I can get the I for I need to the right place.
- Had a good time catching up with people at the @fsf office.

Challenges:
- My laptop's charge port has decided to not work. On the bright side, if I bum @amerl's #FrameworkLaptop then #HiDPI tools are going to improve this weekend.

Early versions of #Windows (up through the 9x series) had an option for "Large Fonts" in order to make text more legible on #HiDPI displays (which, at the time, meant >72 dpi or so), but applications were rarely optimized for it. You'd often end up with labels larger than buttons or text spilling out of controls. Many readme files included a note telling you to use Small Fonts to avoid problems.

When it *did* work, though, it looked pretty good.

#Retina #HiDPI #P3 #WideGamut screens transformed the way we perceive digital content forever. Crisp texts, vivid colors, deep blacks.

I do miss the years when I could look at a screen, and deeply appreciate how artists designed the way their pixels bridged the gap between an imagined world and the real world. Elegant pixel fonts, smooth dithering, skeuomorphic art. Ah the #nostalgia

In "A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny" I discuss the state of #HiDPI support in #Linux, #X11, #Wayland, #Gnome, and #KDE #Plasma. I note some bugs in both #KDE and #Gnome, with the more serious ones in #Gnome, and discuss my eventual decision to use #KDE on my HiDPI #Framework #laptop. I also link to some patches that clear up the little bugs in KDE in this scenario.

So I bought a new monitor to replace a faulty one.
I went from three LG 4K screens, to two LG 4K screens and one HP 4K screen.

Minor change, you would think. After all, the resolution of all the screens still remain the same.

So why are half of my applications too small and the other half of my applications too big?

The mysteries of DPI scaling on a Linux desktop.

I still have no idea why #SVG icons are showing up blurry in #HiDPI on tiles and in the All Apps list until they're force-reloaded either by resizing the tile or scrolling enough, and I tried to use this file to fix it after trying to fix it myself when it seemingly broke in a #QtQuick update a few versions ago. At this point I'm wondering if I should just ditch QtQuick because blurry icons are really annoying, and the #PinePhone is likely to be used in HiDPI.

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