SUMMARY Pretty much the summary. The "I think?" is because it seems to happen in web-based apps, I'm not sure what's what but I think it's an electron thing. This is all happening on my new laptop fedora 35, using wayland. The reason I'm posting this on the KDE sub tho is because all these apps are fine on GNOME from my testing, but act up in Plasma. I think it's something to do with how Plasma handles scaling, since this new device has a 1440p screen, and I've never had this before on 1080p and 768p screens, plus when I set the scaling in plasma to 100% nothing is blurred, but everything is zoomed out so it's not too ideal. I'd appreciate all the help I could get on this since this device is essential for work and school. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install any electron-based app, whether through flatpak or the package manager 2. Open it, in plasma, using wayland OBSERVED RESULT The fonts and icons are blurry EXPECTED RESULT The fonts and icons are not blurry SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 35, Plasma 5.23.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2
Created attachment 146570 [details] Visual studio code showing the issue
Created attachment 146571 [details] Obsidian showing the issue
mutter and kwin/sway/weston do hidpi differently. hopefully, it will be addressed with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/1959. in meanwhile, you could enable native wayland support in vscode, e.g. ❯ cat .config/electron-flags.conf --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland or run it as `code --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland`
that sucks, might use gnome in the meantime until f36 releases because these apps aren't the only ones affected by these problems and are essential to my livelihood.
It happens also in VirtualBox, both the VB app in the host and the guest.
wxGTK apps are also affected by this. Despite of having Wayland support it didn't work properly until 3.1.5-ish which isn't considered stable (3.0 is).
This is fixed in Plasma 5.26!