Bug 404343

Summary: HiDPI font scaling blurry in GTK applications
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Jeffrey Bouter <kde>
Component: wayland-genericAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jeffrey Bouter 2019-02-14 13:20:29 UTC 
SUMMARY
Font scaling is blurry on HiDPI in GTK applications

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use wayland
2. Configure display scaling (e.g. a factor of 2)
3. Open a GTK application. Firefox is a good example

OBSERVED RESULT
Fonts within firefox itself, and webpages, are very blurry

EXPECTED RESULT
Smoothly scaled fonts, like the rest of the environment


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.15
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.55
Qt Version: 5.12

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Using KDE Neon (5.15)
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2019-02-14 14:36:45 UTC 
GTK apps with high DPI support are fine. See gtk-demo 
Firefox is running in xwayland.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 389191 ***
Comment 2 Jeffrey Bouter 2019-02-14 14:55:34 UTC 
I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.