How do I scale down so I can read text?
I have an issue where certain games are just scaled so much that I can't read text. I am on the framework laptop 16.
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try
gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -- %command% in launch options see if that fixes itwait, why does the framework option on the website lead me to the generic image?
Is there anything different with the framework image than the standard one?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
no clue I don't have a framework
fixed the issue btw
yippe!
but I would like to see a patch for the whole system since it is just a bandaid
maybe a ujust script or something
go to display settings and choose the different scaling option
that doesn't affect steam games at all
and I also can't get it to fullscreen
gmod
meta + f to fullscreen with gamescope
ok that worked, can we get like an actual fix so everything works out of the box just like what I heard
you can try setting your display settings to 1080p if you want
I don't think this is necessarily a bazzite issue just a proton/windows game issue
then my display just uses much less space on my screen
like the display itself gets smaller
whats the scale you have it set to
100%?
125%
and what is the scaling option set to
I said 125
no like at the bottom
there are two scaling methods u can choose
and the default one is pretty shite
its like xwayland scaling or whatever
where?
just send a screenshot if your display settings
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
YOU'RE USING GNOME
I can't find it
ok ok
my bad
yeah
my bad
uhh let me look up how to change the way scaling works on gnome
I would like to see if one of the bazzite maintainers know more about this
no I figured it out
if they are active
you did
go to bazaar and download something called "refine"
open it
ok done
turn "xwayland native scaling" off
remove the launch options in gmod
log out log back in again and see if it works
fixed so far
The trade-off is that I'm pretty sure this makes xwayland apps a bit blurry
screwd up my open applications but can reopen them
thats what I meant by log out and log back in again
idk if it does that with it on or off but yeah
There's no difference
oh good to know
The best option I know of is to use Gamescope to render the problematic games at a more standard resolution, but disabling xwayland native scaling should work just as well if you don't notice any blur
I don't notice much of a blur so no big deal
cause you may not notice it rn but if you notice increased eye strain then do what engineer said
yeah that is exactly why I needed to disable native xwayland scaling
how would I run games through gamescope without putting launch arguments in every game?
You can't, but it's a lot less annoying if you use
scb -- %command% and then edit the global config file for ScopeBuddy, since then you can edit that one file to change the settings for every game
If you check the curated page in Bazaar, there's a GUI for scopebuddy near the bottom that can edit the config for youare there even benifites of having native xwayland scaling enabled?
Native scaling means the x11 apps are told to scale themselves which they may or may not do, no native scaling (from what I can tell) means the x11 apps are rendered at a lower resolution and the window is blown up to match. If your scaling is set to 200%, for example, all x11/xwayland apps will render at half resolution and be very blurry
The gamescope solution is similar, but using gamescope means you'll only need to deal with blurriness on games that are otherwise problematic instead of blurriness on every game and app that doesn't handle wayland natively (proton doesn't use wayland natively by default yet because it doesn't yet work as well, meaning the vast majority of games will have this blur without native scaling enabled)
Does Plasma deal with game scaling differently?
no it just has the option baked into the DE where for some reason gnome you have to download a third party app to change it like refine
yeah I may return back to KDE even though I liked gnome too
I hear people say "don't use rpm-ostree rebase" but I just delete ~/.config and ~/.cache and I have no issues related to it
and it is a huge may too
noice! whatever u prefer, I personally like gnome more so I've been using bazzite gnome and haven't had a problem they just sometimes have had choices
yeah, I find them both good DEs
I wanna report back that disabling native xwayland scaling makes my games perform better too
Because turning off native scaling makes the games render at a lower resolution that gets scaled up (usually what gamescope is used for)
my fw 16 has such a high res display that I don't notice blur