On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 9:55 AM Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > I have just found another essential feature that is missing in Plasma > Wayland: Under X11, I can scale outputs (at X11 level) ignoring the aspect > ratio. This is essential to unify outputs with different aspect ratios. > E.g., my notebook has a 1280×800 (8:5/16:10) display. Using xrandr --scale- > from, I can stretch this to 16:9, or even to 1024×768 4:3 which is then > stretched to 16:9 by the TV. So I see the same thing on the notebook's > built-in screen and on the TV, slightly distorted, but workable. > > Today, I tried to do this trick with my PinePhone (using the convergence > dock and HDMI output). Plasma Mobile forces Wayland on me. So I look at the > options of kscreen-doctor, which is purportedly the replacement of xrandr, > and well, that dumb thing can only apply one scale factor, not different > ones for horizontal and vertical. So I cannot get truly unified outputs, > meaning the experience completely sucks. (One or the other display ends up > truncated and impossible to work with. Also because Plasma insists on > filling the larger display and truncating the smaller one instead of filling > the smaller one and letterboxing the larger one as it should.) So this means > 1. Wayland will never be suitable for my notebook, and 2. one of these days > I am going to have to port Plasma Mobile to X11. >
Or 3. you could go ask for the feature to be exposed, because in Wayland, we have more flexibility on how outputs are managed at all. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
