Individual GNOME applications [LWN.net]

Individual GNOME applications

Posted Jun 24, 2025 16:32 UTC (Tue) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Individual GNOME applications by paulj
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies

It's not news to me. There's still lots of programs that don't work correctly with HiDPI under X11. No, not just games.

Also, don't even think about trying to span monitors of disparate resolution with a single window.

Also² don't get me started on other silly assumptions in the X11 codebase. Simple example: Wayland thinks that negative pointer coordinates are a perfectly cromulent thing to have. Xwayland does not. You guess what happens on my monitor setup, where monitor #2 is mounted 120 pixels higher than #1.

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Individual GNOME applications

Posted Jul 19, 2025 14:27 UTC (Sat) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050) [Link]

FWIW, per the discussion starting at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_reque... , while this could be fixed in Xwayland in theory, it would be really tricky to catch all affected code. And it could likely still confuse some X clients.

Making the Wayland compositor not advertise any outputs at negative locations to Xwayland, while technically a workaround, should be a much easier solution overall.