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I spent 4 years with and external monitor on my desk that I couldn't use because it was absolutely painful to find a consistent way to make the 2 different DPIs of the screens work in a way that made sense. Only now with proper Wayland can I enjoy and use it. Yeah there's hacks, but I'd rather let it be dead in a corner than try to work around it. It was a bunch of black screen, inconsitencies between the order I'd plug the external screen, when i did it (before or after logging in), etc... I can't even imagine all the other pain points about hdr, variable or high refresh rates, etc.
Wayland is great.
Had to wait a bunch of time and tried many times before and it wasn't ready for my needs, but now it is and I'm happy. God knows how many rants I've done on fedi about it not working for a lot of time on plasma and weird bugs everwhere.
What do you mean? I used multidisplay setups for 15 years, I never checked what's the DPI of my monitors is and never had issues. I just plug in any external monitors I have around and it works. I did it on desktop machines and many different laptops. I'm always baffled when people say their monitors don't work because of sync rates or DPI. What are they trying to do and what's not working?
e.g. one monitor is 96dpi, and the other is 192dpi, moving a window from one monitor to the other shouldn't result in the window becoming a different physical size, and it should render at a natural resolution on both (i.e. scaling it to half size for display on the 96dpi monitor doesn't count)