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I'm really struggling for reasons to care about what happens on Wayland... because I have yet to find any decent desktop environments or window managers for Wayland. Sway is a close contender, but the one major problem I have with it is the fact that on high-DPI displays XWayland applications appear blurry.

Do you have any recommendations for Wayland desktop environments or window managers?

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https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2064

Slightly confused, is that PR ready for use right now?

Think of it like this instead: if more applications support wayland, then more people can switch to it, some of those will be developers who are then more willing to build/port DEs and WMs for it.

Except that it hasn't been a problem for years on e.g. GNOME. X11 applications work fine and are not blurry. They generally use 2x scaling. Only old Gtk2+ applications such as Inkscape and GIMP have small icons, but there is probably a workaround.

Sure, if you use Sway, you get blurry X11 applications. If this is a problem for you, don't use Sway ;).

gnome-shell has worked for years with HiDPI and Wayland. XWayland applications are not blurry, GNOME configures them to use to use the GNOME scaling setting and they look as sharp as native Wayland applications.

I haven't tried Wayfire yet, but it looks fun enough that it might get me to install Wayland: https://wayfire.org/

No idea how practical it is, but I miss Compiz Fusion with the windows wobbling and burning up, and if it will bring some joy to my desktop in these trying times, that's all I ask.

The out-of-the-box setup on Fedora $Beta is probably the best Wayland environment that exists right now.

GNOME.

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