MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry

Re:MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-r... by rbanffy on Saturday July 07, 2018 @04:34AM (#17477679)

This complexity is why we can't have windows that spread between 1x and 2x monitors since the introduction of Retina displays.

Ideally everything should be rendered (and cached) to the maximum resolution available (minimum trace widths considered) and then downsampled to the specific screens with subpixel data applied, but that's a lot of processing to do and battery life would suffer.

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Re:MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-r... by brigade on Saturday July 07, 2018 @05:29AM (#17477804)

Eh? Before Yosemite was released in 2014, one window could span between a 1x and 2x monitor. I forget if it was always rendered at 1x, or if it was rendered at 2x and scaled for the 1x, but yeah it looked like crap on one or the other. Actually I think it switched depending on which monitor had more of the window?

But they only eliminated windows spanning across multiple monitors when they made spaces per-display.

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Re:MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-r... by lloeki on Saturday July 07, 2018 @07:12AM (#17478018)

It's still there iirc if you disable separate spaces per display.

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Re:MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-r... by rbanffy on Saturday July 07, 2018 @06:17AM (#17477907)

I don't remember that, but, if you do, I trust your memory (and your hypothesis) over mine.

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