RushLana comments on Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland

I can't find anything online but I remember when I started using linux ( around 12 years ago ) I kept hearing stuff on IRC about how steam needed specific workaround in the X11 and how that was setting a bad precedent.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

I can imagine. How curious. 😁

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The funniest thing is how the Gaming Mode on the Steam Deck works. It first runs Gamescope, a Wayland compositor. This then runs Steam in a XWayland session. Then when a game is started it starts another Gamescope session which launches the game in a second XWayland session.

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[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Then when a game is started it starts another Gamescope session which launches the game in a second XWayland session.

No, it doesn't start another gamescope. It starts a second Xwayland in the same gamescope instance.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago*

There's a launch option you can add to your Steam .desktop file or whatever that will scale the UI up and fractional works. I think I have mine at 1.15x.

Don't remember the command off the top of my head though.

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