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> With X, all monitors must share the same pix density
To get proper fractional scaling on X11 with monitors of different pixel densities, you'll want to use either:
1. GNOME with a patched version of Mutter, which is included by default in Ubuntu[1] and its derivatives (such as Pop!_OS and elementary OS). Manjaro also offers the patched version of Mutter as the mutter-x11-scaling package.[2] You'll need to enable the x11-randr-fractional-scaling experimental feature for any of these distros.[3]
2. Cinnamon, included by default in Linux Mint
To get proper fractional scaling on Wayland, you also have two options:
1. GNOME Shell, with the scale-monitor-framebuffer experimental option enabled[4]
2. KDE Plasma, which is still a little bit buggy on Wayland
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/mutter/-/blob/ubuntu/mas...
[2] https://github.com/puxplaying/mutter-x11-scaling
[3] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-enable-hidpi-fr...
[4] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-enable-hidpi-fr...