UI Scaling and Wayland#
About Wayland#
Zrythm currently forces X11 (i.e., XWayland) when running on Wayland because almost all plugins on GNU/Linux are built against X11 and some plugin UIs crash when running under Wayland directly.
Hint
You can avoid these crashes by bridging plugins.
If you are fine with this and prefer Zrythm to use pure Wayland
you can use the GDK_BACKEND environment variable.
You can either pass this variable when running Zrythm from the
terminal,
$ export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
$ zrythm_launch
or you can edit the Desktop Entry for Zrythm.
- Exec=/usr/bin/zrythm_launch
+ Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=wayland /usr/bin/zrythm_launch
See also
UI Scaling#
If you are using Wayland and your window manager already has the
correct scaling settings, you may be able to get the user
interface scaled correctly by having Zrythm running entirely in
Wayland using GDK_BACKEND.
On Xorg, you can scale the interface by setting the
GDK_SCALE environment variable:
$ export GDK_SCALE=2
$ zrythm_launch
Attention
GTK3/4 does not support fractional scaling currently, so fractional factors will be ignored. This environment variable is also ignored in Mutter Wayland sessions.