KDE zooms to 105% by default

General system EndeavourOS installation
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I did an install on a new laptop and noticed the fonts were blurry, no adjustments at hinting or disabling anti aliasing fixed it. Thinking it was just the laptop, I simply moved on as I had more pressing matters at the moment.

Fast foward: Was checking a few monitors I bought to see if they work using my main PC, noticed they were also blurry, not just one, but all 3, even when adjusting sharpness settings. I assumed sharpness was the problem because the fonts were fine on the primary monitor.

Decided to open display settings on KDE, and while trying to rearrange monitor locations and priority/primary, Realized that the new monitor I had just plugged in was set to 105% zoom. This is a new occurrence since I last updated, my eyes are pretty sharp so I wouldve noticed this happening before. My most recent update prior was a about 3-5 months ago before I updated this last week.

I went back to the laptop, opened display settings, and sure enough the new install is set to 105% zoom. Im not sure who or where to report this to (here or to KDE,) but it may be a hindrance to new users. It’s just ever so slightly blurry enough to hurt the eyes lol :upside_down_face: and seems to have occurred somewhere during an update in the last 3-5 months.

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last kde update defaults session now to use wayland.
Not sure if it will set to 105% for all hidpi displays, but could be it does adjust that by default now.

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I wonder why the unusual adjustment? Its makes everything blurry. Oh well, Thanks!

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This was recently identified as an issue and addressed: The automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland will no longer give you a default scale factor that’s only a little bit higher than 100%, as these scale factors often result in a lot of blurriness. Now it will instead round the calculated default scale factor down to 100% if it would otherwise be only a little bit higher.

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