I currently have scaling set to 150% and the tearing is getting annoying. When searching for solutions I found 2 common ways that people have fixed this:
Install xf86-video-intel which I can’t figure out how to do.
Or enable Wayland, but that doesn’t seem to be enabling:
Restarted and it’s still X11:
Here’s my display settings:
Has anyone been able to resolve the tearing at 150% in Pop 21.10?
Did you choose the right gnome session (with wayland) on GDM ?
Changing this config enables this option, but you still need to select it from login screen
Ah, there we go, selected Pop on Wayland from the little gear after clicking on my username and I’m all set now, thanks @fdr !
OK new question, with Wayland, the trackpad has a lot of inertia when scrolling, is there any way to disable this? It would make sense with a touchscreen, but I always end up scrolling past when I wants to stop.
I at least found a way to disable the inertia/kinetic scrolling in Firefox, but it’d be nice to disable it system-wide.
I’m getting much better performance from Wayland, it seems to have fixed the issue of media playback above 1080p on an external monitor being super laggy and CPU heavy.
Fractional scaling seems better in terms of apps scaling properly, albeit blurry. I’d like to disable fractional scaling on a per app basis but I havent found a way yet, unfortunately this means apps like Discord are blurry.
I found a related bug for this with VS Code being blurry and it turns out to be related to electron, and should be fixed in an upcoming release.
Ah interesting, thats good to know. Thanks
I can second this, display performance is better on Wayland - not noticing any blurriness with apps. I typically keep video playback at 480/720p since I mostly view videos at 2x+. I had previously found scaling to 200% and then minimizing in app display to 80% to be helpful
Also didn’t need the screen tearing fix on Wayland
@Alex5 probably it’s a bit late to answer, but I had the same problems with touchpad after wake up and disabling PS/2 emulation (or I don’t know how exactly it’s called there) helped. Haven’t had any problems since then
@Alex5 I have the same issue with the trackpad. After using a MacBook trackpad, I’m extremely disappointed with this one.
Think there are a few things that Apple is industry-leading:
i.e. I’m saying, it’s pretty much a known standard that if you’re not on a Macbook…the trackpad would automatically fall into the ‘can’t compare to Apple’ category.
Trackpad disappointment is near-guaranteed for any Macbook users using anything else.
PC laptops just don’t have that full control over hardware, OS, apps, sales, distribution, trade-in…etc. Be it good or bad.
Question about OS update. I use PopOS 21 on my Framework for about half a year already, so far so mostly good 
Recently it started showing me the pop up that update to 22 is available. So the question is how bad is the idea of doing such ‘live major update’ 21 → 22?
Previously, I used macOS as my work OS for about 10+ years and such major updates work mostly fine there. Yet, I had a really bad experience updating the Linux the same ~10 years back. Some of my previous old Ubuntus basically crashed after a minor upgrade with apt-get.
Many people upgraded with no issues. I did so on a couple of machines, but on my primary had a fair amount of hassle. I believe that I have it ok now, but in the mean time swapped the ssd and am now running manjaro. If you haven’t added any third party ppas you likely will be fine. Just make sure to have a backup in case things do go sideways.
@ololobus FWIW I’ve upgraded mine with only very minor issues, all of which have been resolved.
@ololobus I had pretty major issues that resulted in booting from a USB to repair the system. Fortunately I had a backup with Timeshift and my data was partitioned. Id definitely recommend a backup prior to the update.
So I have this one glaring issue with my Framework running PopOS which is that my screen resolution changes whenever the computer goes to sleep/suspends or turns off. The default, it seems is the following.
Built-in display:
(I’m listing them all, idk what the HiDPI Daemon is and am curious.) I am fine with the display function except the Fractional Scale of 200%, I prefer it at 150% most of the time, except when I need large text and my eyes are having trouble reading.
The problem is whenever the framework suspends or shuts off, it always resets to 200%. And it’s worse when it suspends because it doesn’t actually resize anything to fit in the change in resolution, so the screen just looks more zoomed in and the mouse determines where the zoomed windows goes.
Anyone have any ideas? I tried using a script that uses the HiDPI-Fixer AppImage, but that was imperfect at best, and still needed to be manually run each time in my implementation, I could not get it to be automatic. (Also it made my Zoom client way over-sized for my screen and it was not resizable, I figured that out that bug fix later).
Yes I’ve tried this multiple times and still gotten the same results, and I can’t find anything written online to fix it. Wiping the computer, reinstalling the OS, the bug still exists. I also notice the HiDPI daemon controls behave strangely and the notification for it cannot be dismissed. No idea if that’s even related.
TLDR: I need either an automatic fix to re-adjust my resolution scaling to 150% whenever I wake up the computer (an imperfect but passable solution) or I need a way to fix the bug in PopOS + Framework that changes the screen resolution outside my control when the laptop suspends or shuts off (an actual fix).
Oh, it’s for using external monitors with lower dpi:
https://blog.system76.com/post/174414833678/all-about-the-hidpi-daemon
IS there a way to enable kinetic scrolling in XWayland? I’ve got it turned on in Firefox but it doesn’t do anything. I want kinetic scrolling and all I see is posts about people asking how to turn it off, how do you enable it in the first place?
