Title: Icons Look Good, But Text Feels Blurry with Fractional Scaling on Lenovo Legion 5

[Bunuel]

Hi everyone,

I’m using a Lenovo Legion 5 laptop with a HiDPI screen, running Ubuntu. I enabled fractional scaling because the icons and UI elements were too small by default. I set the scaling to 150%, and while the icons now look good, there seems to be an issue with the text.

The text feels blurry or off—it's hard to explain, but it doesn’t look as sharp or smooth as it should. It gives me a weird feeling when reading text on the screen.

Here’s my setup:

• Resolution: 2560x1600 (scaled at 150%).
• Desktop Environment: GNOME.

I’ve tried enabling fractional scaling in the display settings, but the issue persists. Is there a way to fix the blurry text or make it look sharper without affecting the scaling?

Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

 

[gvisoc]

EDIT: adding the example

It depends on the application and that's mainly for the applications that use X, that are run under Xwayland when your DE is running on Wayland (the modern screen protocol).

If you're seeing somehow the right side of this image...

Then the cause is that the application working under X11, rendering the information and sending it to a screen managed by Wayland but through XWayland. You have to check the app's documentation to see how you can force the application where you see the blurry text to be run under Wayland natively. And there might not be possible if the application hasn't adopted the Wayland SDKs in some degree

For example, for Electron-based applications you can go from right to left in levels of crispiness by adding the following command line options: --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=WayandWindowDecorations