Blurry with fractional scaling enabled

[johansmitsnl]

Steps to reproduce

1. Enable fractional scaling (my case 175%) on a Debian trixie wayland system
2. Launch element desktop
3. observe blurry text

Outcome

What did you expect?

To see clear text like any other app

What happened instead?

It was blurry not as sharp as other apps

Operating system

Debian Trixie (testing)

Application version

Element-versie: 1.11.89 Crypto version: Rust SDK 0.7.2 (2f872cf), Vodozemac 0.8.1

How did you install the app?

https://packages.element.io/debian

Homeserver

ghcr.io/element-hq/synapse:v1.121.1

Will you send logs?

Yes

[rom4nik]

As a workaround, I set ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland in /etc/environment to make the app scale properly. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Environment_variable

[johansmitsnl]

@rom4nik this helped indeed. Would be nice if the app itself could detect and set it.