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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2097392
Title:
Low quality fractional scaling in Xwayland apps
Status in Mutter:
New
Status in mutter package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Very serious UX problem affecting lot (most) of the users, Ubuntu
24.10:
On my FullHD notebook, Ubuntu 24.10, Gnome, setting scaling to
anything other then 100% has really bad effect on font quality and
crispness of the text. Previously, I had scaling set to 125% and fonts
looked hazy and wrong. First, I thought it is some font-rendering
issue, but then I realized that when I turn off scaling (set to 100%)
and enlarge fonts instead in Gnome-tweaks, fonts are about the same
size as with scaling, but good looking and crisp! However, scaling is
not universally bad for fonts in all applications, in Gnome Control
Center (Settings) or System monitor, fonts are crisp, even with
scaling. But non-Gnome-system apps I use (Edge/Chromium, Android
Studio, Netbeans, Visual Studio Code) all have bad looking fonts with
any scaling on, fractional or not. Especially annoying in web
browsers. If you render same web page in Windows and Ubuntu, text
looks about same quality at 100% (no scaling), but at any other
scaling Windows keeps its text rendering quality, while Ubuntu don't.
Users experiencing this font-rendering degradation probably have no
idea something is wrong, they just see hazy, low-quality fonts on the
screen. Problem is less visible on high-dpi screens, and more annoying
on FullHD screens or less-dpi TVs.
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