When connecting the Steam Deck to a HiDPI monitor, I would like to have the scaling set to 150%. However, this scaling does also apply to the Steam Deck.

Is there a way to decouple the two scaling percentages in order to have 100% on the Steam Deck’s screen and 150% on the HiDPI monitor? Thanks.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    Not easily. You would have to launch the Wayland version of the desktop instead of the X version.

    Basically Wayland is a newer graphics stack for Linux that has more support for such things like separate scaling. Unfortunately it is still a little bit buggy with KDE. I guess that’s why Valve didn’t use that for the desktop.

    The Steam Deck probably doesn’t even have everything needed to run the desktop with Wayland, so it’s probably hard to achieve.

    • cianmor@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thank you for the explanation. I run everything at 100% then until SteamOS desktop mode also switches to Wayland.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        My workaround on my Linux laptop with a hidpi display was to use half the resolution on the hidpi one. I didn’t need the high resolution anyways.