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Written by Chris Wood on 2024-10-29 at 22:37

Well this was a pleasant surprise - I just updated to Fedora Linux 41 and fractional scaling is available out of the box! Everything looks really crisp, even Electron apps! That's fantastic!! Thank you!

[#]Fedora #Linux #GNOME

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Written by Chris Wood on 2024-10-29 at 22:50

Firefox, Chrome, Signal, Krita, Inkscape... my gosh, I've got so much more screen with the new fractional scaling option at 150%! And no fans going off either; it seems efficient and it all looks so crisp! My #Framework laptop feels like a whole new beast!

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Written by Chris Wood on 2024-10-29 at 23:13

Also worth noting that turning on font hinting and antialiasing in GNOME Tweaks makes fonts look chef's kiss on these fractionally scaled resolutions (if those settings aren't already on for you)

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Written by partizan on 2024-10-30 at 06:55

@chriswood do you prefer this new fractional screen scaling over the simple "font scale"?

I tried it a few times, but for me the smaller UI and normal fonts look so much better (and more compact). Bonus: you get even more control with font scaling.

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Written by Chris Wood on 2024-10-30 at 08:56

@partizan for me, yes, 100%!

Title bars took up a lot of height with 200% display scale and 0.9 font scale. Half of my screen in apps like Inkscape was often taken up by sidebars. Web pages often loaded the tablet view. Handbrake wouldn’t fully fit on my screen so I couldn’t see the progress bar on the bottom when converting a video. Nextcloud also didn’t fit on my screen for a long time and I had to use the tab and enter keys to guess where the “Save settings” button was.

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Written by partizan on 2024-10-30 at 09:18

@chriswood I tend to use 100% display scale, and 1.6 font scale on 4k monitor.

And 1.3 font scale on a smaller laptop. Everything fits the screen!

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Written by Chris Wood on 2024-10-30 at 12:30

@partizan glad it works for you 😊 as a UI designer I love seeing the elements in the proportions the original designers intended, and also I find interactive elements too small to hit at that 100% display scale. So needless to say, I’m very happy with this new feature

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Written by Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈 on 2024-10-31 at 13:40

@chriswood @partizan My limit for font scaling was roughly 125% as larger values caused too much distortion of the layout.

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