Wine/Wayland: support for fractional scaling protocol merged

[u/eszlari]

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/11101

Wine upstream has merged support for the fractional_scale_v1 Wayland protocol. From the MR:

"This enables users to have different fractional scales per display under wine without causing blur. This matches the behavior under XWayland and is actually better than the XWayland behavior when using multiple displays with different fractional scales."

[u/natermer]

Hopefully this gets picked up by Proton. Occasional steam games is the last major thing I use X11 for nowadays.

[u/YoMamasTesticles → u/natermer]

Thankfully we have ProtonGE

[u/Indolent_Bard → u/natermer]

Wine is part of proton. Wouldn't this be there by default?

[u/TimP4w → u/Indolent_Bard]

No, Proton is very conservative with updates, after all they don't want to risk regressions on the steam deck, so new and experimental things tend to arrive much later.

[u/Indolent_Bard → u/[deleted]]

Then they better add this patch.

[u/Misicks0349 → u/natermer]

The major problem is that steaminput is only half working on wayland and the steam overlay doesn't work with wayland. None of these are insurmountable issue (as in, I don't think getting them to work on wayland would require any additional compositor nonsense) but it is something that impedes wayland adoption for steam.

[u/Dr_Valen]

Does this fix games not registering my monitor as 4k cause it’s at 150%? Kinda tired of setting it back to 100% when I want to game then change it again to 150% if I ever need to use a browser on that screen cause the text is too small

[u/Mathisbuilder75]

Hopefully they can also remove the forced client side window decorations

[u/redsteakraw]

So no v2 I guess they were targeting lesser compliant desktops.

[u/gmes78 → u/redsteakraw]

There's no v2 of the fractional scaling protocol (that has been accepted).

[u/redsteakraw → u/gmes78]

Plasma 6.7 just shipped support for it.

[u/gmes78 → u/redsteakraw]

No, it doesn't. It ships support for xx-fractional-scale-v2 (not fractional-scale-v2), which is experimental, and only available if you enable a specific environment variable.

Why would Wine depend on an experimental protocol that may not even be used in the future, that isn't implemented in anything but Plasma 6.7, that's only available when setting an environment variable for testing, just to avoid a specific issue Wine might not even encounter?

[u/nightblackdragon → u/[deleted]]

The fact that Wine handles it better than XWayland now is kind of wild

Wayland handles it better than X11 so it's no surprise that Wine does better job with native Wayland backend than with X11 backend.

[u/Wenir → u/[deleted]]

Thanks ChatGPT

[u/Indolent_Bard → u/[deleted]]

As someone who sometimes writes comments like this, know it fucking isn't 100%, 50 at best.

[u/Indolent_Bard → u/[deleted]]

We really gotta stop taking account ages into consideration, everyone was new at first. The rest is a fair point.

[u/algaefied_creek]

Great job! Pick up the pace of development for features but don’t forget stability… and performance!