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    In what way? I've been using triple monitors for close to a decade now and my KDE switched from X11 to Wayland at some point without me noticing, so I'm wondering what I missed.

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    Something KDE has done seems to have resolved the issues I used to have with DPI related scaling problems in Wayland. Once Plasma 6 hit, it's been nothing but rapid improvements with Wayland as a focus and man does it feel nice.

    That said, there's virtually no downside to still using X unless you have explicit display features you need from Wayland like HDR or the per-display scaling. Xfce is stupid lightweight and still my default for anything where battery life is a benefit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I noticed the same thing with KDE and Wayland. Sometimes my curser still grows 10 sizes or shrinks as I pass over certain windows or between monitors but things are more consistent and predictable than they used to be.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ah, my monitors are all identical and stay plugged in all the time, so it's a much less complicated use-case than yours.

    I do have one issue where, because I picked the wrong 9070XT on launch day and couldn't exchange it due to lack of availability, one of my monitors is on HDMI instead of DisplayPort and takes annoyingly longer to wake from sleep or change modes than the other two. But I think that's more likely a hardware or driver problem than a Wayland one.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    The fact that you're comparing Wayland to XFCE tells us you're not entirely sure what you're doing. One is a compositor and the other is a desktop environment.

    Your problems are with GNOME. I dont even think you could define what X11 and Wayland are based on your posts, much less articulate why one is better than the other

    Start by reading about Wayland. Don't make shit up and defend a position you can't even articulate. It's cringe.

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    I'm literally reading your posts and responding to your words.

    The real issue is that even today, some apps (Firefox, gedit, some terminals) don't adjust their scaling to the new screen

    This shows you dont know what fractional scaling is otherwise you would have used the term.

    I work in Linux as a daily driver for work and personal. I don't care what the tools are, but they need to work and stay out of the way. Right now, Wayland implementation of multi monitor for my hardware is too much bother, I'll try it again in a year.

    This is you being stubborn because you're justifying your inaction based on false manufactured premises.

    I have no objections to Wayland itself, but I value the kind of stability xfce gives me, which is stable, predictable, and gets out of the way. Right now, on my hardware, Wayland/gnome is not there.

    This shows you don't understand what Wayland is because you compared a compositor protocol to a desktop environment.

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