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		AnIdiotOnTheNet on Oct 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: KDE Plasma 5.20 Yes, it is only supported in Wayland because X is limited to one global scaling factor.

nitrogen on Oct 13, 2020 [–]

I don't think X is so limited. You can use the xrandr tool to set pretty much arbitrary positioning and scaling for each screen, at least with the proprietary NVidia drivers.

But that is GPU scaling, not framework scaling.

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