Fractional scaling on Wayland.... kinda sucks NGL.

With many distros now defaulting to Wayland by default, I wanted to test out how Wayland handles fractional scaling.

In short, if it is a native Wayland app, it will look pretty good. If it is running via xWayland, it will be a blurry mess that makes it impossible to use.

Here are some example screen shots from Pop!_OS Gnome. These were taken while the HiDPI Daemon was enabled. Scaling was set to 125% on my 1080p 13 inch LG Gram.

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As you can see, non Wayland native apps appear very blurry in these screen shots. This is in stark contrast to X11 applications that still look crisp and clear.

The differnece is really unsettling and I hope this post gets the attention of developers to hopefully rectify this regression.