Individual GNOME applications

Posted Jun 25, 2025 15:12 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Individual GNOME applications by paulj
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies

Well, depends on the display and the attachment method; my external monitor flickers wildly at any resolutions other than CEA-861 predefined resolutions (and I've not bothered to work out why - there's a firmware update available, but I'd have to get a Windows machine sorted to apply it). No trouble at 640x480, 2880x576, 1280x720 or 3840x2160, but huge trouble at 2560x1440@60Hz. I therefore need Linux to do the scaling, because the scale I'm asking for would need the monitor to run at 2560x1440.

And I also find that Linux is better at doing the scaling than the monitor is; text is easier to read when the application renders for a 5120x2880 monitor, and then the compositor downscales to 3840x2160, than it is when the application renders for 2560x1440, and the monitor or the compositor upscales to 3840x2160.