It sounds like fixing this bug is the least difficult issue. It also sounds like you should subscribe to bug 1825625.
Your suggestion of a workaround for this bug is not necessary because with the same amount of effort we could just write a patch to disable fullscreen unredirect during fractional scaling, to work around this bug. Or fix it properly somehow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862081 Title: Gnome resizes framebuffer when playing fullscreen video over and over again (when using X11 fractional scaling) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1862081/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs