Sway: HiDPI support

[TPolzer]

Being able to scale (like weston) would make this usable for high resolution displays.

[ddevault]

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/blob/master/sway.5.txt#L109-L112

Set the resolution to half the actual resolution of the display. Actual HiDPI support is wlc's problem.

[stapelberg]

Setting the resolution to half of the actual resolution makes everything big and blurry.

https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc/issues/57 seems to be the relevant issue to track.

[xeechou]

Hidpi support shouldn't be simply set resolution to half. But fonts and icons need to be adapted, right?

[ddevault]

The clients need to be told the scaling factor (see Cloudef/wlc#57), but halving the resolution is a workaround.

[wzhd]

@SirCmpwn I set the resolution to half the actual resolution, but when I switch to X that runs at the actual resolution and switch back to sway, the resolution becomes the actual resolution.

[ddevault]

That's a problem in wlc.

[dobegor]

@SirCmpwn Cloudef/wlc#57 is closed now without any comment given. Is there any reason or fix?

[ddevault]

Experimental hidpi support has landed in master. Use the scale parameter in your output configuration line to set the scale factor. See the man page for more information.

[dobegor]

Oh thanks, gonna check it out soon.

[mcoffin]

@SirCmpwn Will this effectively be solved with the move to wlroots in 1.0? I'm kind-of just waiting on that release to once again attempt moving to wayland, but hidpi would be a necessity.

[ddevault]

Every time someone says "I'm waiting on xyz before I move to Sway" I mentally delay shipping xyz by a week. Don't wait, contribute.

[mcoffin]

Don't wait, contribute.

I was planning on taking a look at wlroots, and making sure that the things I wanted for HiDPI support were in there. That's why I was asking. I was just confirming that the move to wlroots was the planned way that this was going to get solved, and that I wouldnt' just be barking up the wrong tree.

@SirCmpwn

[ddevault]

Yes, that's the plan.