Re:Linux on the Framework Laptop
by pkulak on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @01:50PM
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How do you deal with the screen resolution? Do you have to run it at 1.5x? And, if so, what's the fractional scaling experience like?
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I'm running gnome 40 on arch/Wayland and ended up settling on 2x window scaling with .75 text scaling along with the compact materia theme. This is effectively 1.5x window scaling, but 1.5x fractional scaling alone is blurry on gnome in non gnome apps. The other alternative I tried was 1x window scaling with 1.5x text scaling, but the UI feels more cluttered/cramped.
Re:Linux on the Framework Laptop
by zerocrates on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:46PM
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Personally I'm currently running at 1x and debating whether or not I need to scale things at something like 1.25 instead. 2x is a total nonstarter for me personally.
It's easy enough to manually configure scaling for the various things that are just browsers and I may do that, or use something like GDK_DPI_SCALE. Frankly, "browser-ish" things and the Terminal cover a very large fraction of what I use the thing for.
Fractional scaling is easy to just turn on in the Display settings but I don't love the results and don't want to really deal with what if anything turning it on will do to Steam/ScummVM/whatever. I haven't really played with it much, though.
Re:Linux on the Framework Laptop
by tylerscott on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:00PM
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I personally dig the resolution. I run at 200% and have the fractional scaling toggled off. It works for me but I am primarily editing text files. If you're doing anything graphically intensive, I don't really have any anecdata.
I find the 3000x2000 mode mentioned here works well: https://community.frame.work/t/using-elementary-os-on-the-fr...