In 2024, with GNOME 45, Wayland, and 1.25 fractional scaling, regular DPI displays still look better than HiDPI displays. This is a photo of Discord on two laptops side by side.

The blurry one is the HiDPI display from Framework 13. The sharp one is a regular DPI display from Dell XPS 13. Both laptops.

The difference is even more stark in person.

Even the screenshots from the Framework are blurrier than the screen shots from the Dell.

  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
    131·
    3 months ago

    It’s also posaible to open Discord with Wayland directly by editing the exec command in the .desktop file. Can’t remember what it was ofd the top of my head, but it’s the same for all electron apps.

    • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
      20·
      3 months ago

      Add --ozone-platform-hint=auto to the command, I’ve done it so may times for electron stuff it’s engrained into my head now haha. You can check that it works with xlsclients.

      Also QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland for QT based apps is handy to know too if they’re not behaving.

    • 30p87@feddit.de
      4·
      3 months ago

      For me, many electron apps (especially Discord and Spotify) start to spasm out with this. As in, they open blank windows and can’t be focused etc. So using spotify-player in foot and canary.discord.com in FF Nightly is the only option.

      • Bob@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        3 months ago

        Discord is best enjoyed in Firefox with uBlock origin anyways, I find it faster and it can’t spy on your entire computer!!

        • 30p87@feddit.de
          2·
          3 months ago

          Also with Vencord (Which is not in the Mozilla addon store anymore unfortunately, so you’ll need to use Tampermonkey or FF Nightly/Dev and compile the extension yourself). Then add an Adblock theme to hide all the premium trash you can get for free with Vencord and voilá, you have yourself a usable, still spying and not E2EE, messenger.