You should not only be able to have different fractal scaling for each monitor, but you should also be able to have fractal scaling for each separate window you launch.
Back around 2008, Mandriva released a desktop called Metisse that allowed (seemingly infinite) fractional scaling for each window! (much less is per monitor granularity) Here's a video of that in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxsUKX6xXyE&t=40s To accomplish this, using Metisse, you'd simply hold down shift (or was it ctrl) while resizing the window. You could do almost anything to that window, and all your mouse actions on that window would still work accurately no matter how you scaled it. You could even do silly impractical things like turn the window up-side- down, pivot it, push the left side of the window deeper into the background than the right side, etc. And, all your interactions with that window would still work accurately. It was amazing (and done on Linux first -- 10 years ago). When will the world catch up with what Metisse accomplished in 2008? It was way ahead of its time. Here's an academic paper on Metisse: https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00533597/document -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1687246 Title: GNOME Shell should support fractional (non-integer) Hi-DPI scaling Status in Mutter: In Progress Status in Ubuntu GNOME: Triaged Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: https://trello.com/c/r12LY9iA (for 17.04 was https://trello.com/c/TvwNvXOo) --- I'm using fully updated Ubuntu GNOME 17.04. In Ubuntu Gnome, you only allow for integer scaling of things for high DPI monitors. While in theory this sounds good, on a 27 inch 4k monitor like mine, restricting it to integers is a problem. 1x is annoyingly small, and 2x is WAY too big. You need a 1.5x, and presumably to just allow most noninteger values to future proof the distribution given 8k monitors and all sorts of new and weird things coming out, like windows 10 has. Photos of the two annoying sizes are available here (it won't let me attach two files): http://i.imgur.com/vWrvZxq.jpg http://i.imgur.com/11p19k7.jpg I apologize for my photography skills in advance., you'll have to look at the ruler for scale to see the problem. Please contact me if you need any more information etc. Workaround ========== You can enable experimental fractional scaling in Ubuntu 17.10 or 18.04 LTS by running the following command in a terminal and then restarting your computer. Note that this is an experimental feature and is not fully supported by either Ubuntu or GNOME. gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor- framebuffer']" After restarting your computer, you should find additional scale options in Settings > Devices > Displays. If you change your mind and want to get back to supported status, run: gsettings reset org.gnome.mutter experimental-features To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mutter/+bug/1687246/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
