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benfrain

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[SOLVED] Since installing xorg-xwayland, Firefox is blurry

Before installing xorg-xwayland Firefox was pin sharp on my 4K screen in Sway with fractional scaling. To get DaVinci Resolve running I needed to install xorg-xwayland (see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269908).

However, while Davinci now runs, Firefox is blurry. Pretty sure it is now not using Wayland. When I run it with the `MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox` it appears sharp as before.

Is there a way to tell everything to use Wayland if possible?

Last edited by benfrain (2021-09-26 16:26:47)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Since installing xorg-xwayland, Firefox is blurry

There is no universal way to tell everything to use wayland, primarily because most clients that can run on wayland or X default to wayland if it is available.  Generally you need to set environment variables for some tool kits to force them to run in X11/Xwayland mode or they default to wayland (if a compositor is running).  Firefox seems to be the odd one out in this regard.  So just export that variable from your shell profile or other appropriate location.

Last edited by Trilby (2021-09-25 21:04:16)

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benfrain

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Re: [SOLVED] Since installing xorg-xwayland, Firefox is blurry

Thanks, I've added:

export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

To the `/etc/zsh/zprofile` and it looks nice and sharp again

Last edited by benfrain (2021-09-26 16:26:26)