Bug 1258155
| Summary: | 24" Ultra-HD monitor not recognized as HiDPI in Wayland session | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Brion Vibber <brion> | ||||
| Component: | wayland | Assignee: | Adam Jackson <ajax> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 25 | CC: | adam.lofts, ajax, andrew.smirnov, fedora, jan.public, michael+rh, zlynx | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2017-12-12 10:04:07 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
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Having exactly the same problem here, only with Fedora 23 release instead of alpha and a Dell m3800 instead of a Macbook. Ideally the user would get to choose. For example on a 4K 50" on a desk in your face rendering at 1x scale is exactly the right thing to do because then it is more like having 4 independent 1080p screens. This message is a reminder that Fedora 23 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 23. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '23'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 23 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. This is still an issue with Fedora 25 Workstation. I connected my ThinkPad X1 Carbon to my ViewSonic VX2475Smhl-4K monitor using a mini displayport to displayport cable. The Wayland GNOME session recognizes the monitor as 23" (to be specific, it is 23.6") with a resolution of 3840x2160. However, while the internal display of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon is scaled 2x (as expected), the ViewSonic monitor is not scaled at all. This issue persists when I disable the internal monitor and make the ViewSonic the only monitor. The only diagnostic tool I know of is the X11 tool xrandr, which prints: $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 2160, maximum 8192 x 8192 XWAYLAND3 connected 3840x2160+0+0 520mm x 290mm 3840x2160 59.98*+ Is there a workaround? Do you need any logfiles or any other details? I had a similar issue using a Samsung Ultra HD monitor. The problem is that the horizontal DPI of your monitor is correctly computed as: 3840 / 20.4 = 188.2 dpi. In mutter on wayland there is a function called compute_scale() which decides what scale your monitor should be: https://github.com/GNOME/mutter/blob/eed4dab0fc1d143e83f2d147d49c415bd4dbd6e3/src/backends/native/meta-monitor-manager-kms.c#L476 This function uses a constant of 192 dpi to decide if your monitor should have a 2x scale applied to it. https://github.com/GNOME/mutter/blob/eed4dab0fc1d143e83f2d147d49c415bd4dbd6e3/src/backends/native/meta-monitor-manager-kms.c#L464 So your monitor (and mine) is just below the dpi required to have scaling applied. For me this constant is set way too high. I don't know how it has been determined but text on my screen is unusably tiny. On my computer I have patched mutter with a lower dpi constant, rebuilt gnome-shell and rebuilt Xwayland and I get awesome mixed dpi support with a hidpi and a non-hdpi monitor. So congrats on achieving this feature. Maybe this constant should be made a config option? Or maybe its just too high? Fedora 23 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-12-20. Fedora 23 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. Still present with Fedora 25. Same problem here. Some extra info: Using the tweak tool, it is possible to set a global HiPDI/scale factor which should be valid for all connected displays. Running Wayland, this factor is used on my laptop screen by all applications. However at the external monitor it is only used by applications like Thunderbird, Firefox and Chrome, but not by many other applications, e.g. gnome-terminal, darktable, vlc. With Wayland it should be possible to set a scale-factor per display/monitor. However, I don't know how that can be done. When I installed "weston" and when running "weston-info" I noticed that the scale factor is "2" for the laptop display, but "1" for the external monitor (which should have been "2"). Maybe it should be possible to create a weston.ini-file to set the scale factor for the external monitor, but I am not sure about that. I suppose the question is "How can I set the scale per display for Wayland?" This message is a reminder that Fedora 25 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 25. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '25'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 25 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 25 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-12-12. Fedora 25 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Created attachment 1068308 [details] Screenshot showing correct size on laptop screen, wrong size on external monitor Description of problem: Running Fedora 23 Alpha on my MacBookPro 12,1 (13" Retina early 2015), with a Dell P2415Q 24" Ultra-HD monitor connected, in a Wayland session, the monitor is picked up at 3840x2160 resolution correctly but does not engage the HiDPI scaling on that display. This results in any windows moved to the external display being rendered very small. The same monitor correctly engages HiDPI scaling in an X session. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 23 alpha How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect Dell P2415Q monitor 2. Log in with Wayland session 3. Open a window and move it to the external monitor Actual results: Window becomes tiny Expected results: Window stays same size as on the internal 2560x1600 HiDPI display. Additional info: Connected over Thunderbolt port (DisplayPort protocol)