HiDPI is short for displays with a high DPI / pixel density, such as the Retina MacBook Pro and ASUS Zenbook. HiDPI support within Linux is still maturing.

HiDPI Linux & Open-Source News

XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations   Wayland   2024-04-17
XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features   Wayland   2024-04-12
XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support   Wayland   2024-03-20
Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM   Wayland   2024-01-27
XWayland Adds "-Output" Option For Better Rootful Fullscreen Control   Wayland   2024-01-11
Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023   Wayland   2024-01-01
Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities   Wayland   2023-11-29
Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling & Initial Vulkan Code For The Wayland Driver   WINE   2023-11-24
Vulkan Support Begins Landing For Wine's Wayland Driver   WINE   2023-11-17
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Improved HiDPI Support   WINE   2023-11-15
Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default   Mozilla   2023-11-13
XWayland Rootful HiDPI Support Under Review   Wayland   2023-11-13
JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs   Wayland   2023-08-30
Steam Client Beta Fixes NVIDIA HiDPI Scaling, GPU Hardware Acceleration   Valve   2023-05-18
Lutris 0.5.13 Released - More Responsive & Restores Ability To Run Games Via Proton   Linux Gaming   2023-05-16
Lutris 0.5.13 Beta 2 Released For Managing Your Games On Linux   Linux Gaming   2023-04-20
Wayland 1.22 Released With New Preferred Buffer Scale & Transform Protocol   Wayland   2023-04-04
Mesa 23.1 Provides Improved EGL Implementation For Haiku   Mesa   2023-03-02
labwc 0.6.1 Released For Window-Stacking Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2023-01-30
Wine 8.0 Released With PE Conversion Complete, Progress On WoW64 Support   WINE   2023-01-24
Fedora 38 Features Approved For Unified Kernel, mdadm BIOS RAID, Xfce 4.18   Fedora   2023-01-10
Haiku R1 Beta 4 Released With Improved HiDPI, WiFi Updates, Wayland Compatibility Layer   Operating Systems   2022-12-23
Xfce 4.18 Released - Much Improved File Manager, Better HiDPI, Adaptive Vsync With GLX   Desktop   2022-12-15
OpenShot 3.0 Released With Many Open-Source Video Editing Enhancements   Multimedia   2022-12-10
SuperTuxKart 1.4 Released With Initial Vulkan Renderer   Linux Gaming   2022-11-01
KDE Starts More Feature Work On Plasma 5.27, Fixes For Plasma 5.26   KDE   2022-10-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Is Eliminating GTK 2 Support   Red Hat   2022-08-26
Canonical Continues Working To Improve Its Steam Snap   Linux Gaming   2022-07-28
wxWidgets 3.2 Released After 15k+ Commits, HiDPI, Initial Wayland Support   Free Software   2022-07-07
KDE Plasma 5.26 To Allow Crisper XWayland Apps With New Scaling Option   KDE   2022-06-18
New Wayland Protocol Proposed For Fractional Scaling   Wayland   2022-04-06
Wine 7.0 Released With Improved Theming, New WoW64 & Much More   WINE   2022-01-18
Wine 7.0's Many Features From Better Theming To Improved HiDPI To New Joystick Driver   WINE   2022-01-07
Wine's Wayland Driver Continues Maturing, Aims To Go Through Wine-Staging   WINE   2021-12-10
X.Org Server 21.1 RC2 Brings Fix For Mixed VRR/Non-VRR Multi-Monitor Setups   X.Org   2021-10-14
Krita 5.0 Beta 2 Reworks Its GPU Accelerated Canvas   KDE   2021-10-11
X.Org Server 21.1 RC1 Released With VRR Support For Modesetting Driver, Other Features   X.Org   2021-09-21
Wine 6.17 Released With Better HiDPI Support For Built-In Apps   WINE   2021-09-10
Wine 6.16 Released With Better HiDPI Theming, Initial HID-Based Joystick Backend   WINE   2021-08-27
KDE's HiDPI Scaling Support For X11 Is Getting Into Better Shape   KDE   2021-07-31
China's Alternative To GSoC Is Seeing Some Interesting Summer Open-Source Projects   Free Software   2021-07-11
KDE Kicks Off July With More Plasma Wayland Fixes   KDE   2021-07-09
KDE Pushes More Plasma Wayland Improvements, Plug-in System For The Konsole   KDE   2021-06-26
Left 4 Dead 2 Updated With Vulkan Rendering Via DXVK, Many Other Improvements   Linux Gaming   2021-06-15
Experimental Wayland Driver For Wine Now Supports Vulkan, Other Features   WINE   2021-06-07
KDE Introduces "Quick Settings" Page, Lands More Wayland Fixes   KDE   2021-03-27
LABWC Is The Newest Stacking Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2021-03-06
Zrythm DAW Sees New Release And Should Have "Almost No Crashes"   Multimedia   2021-02-28
Portal 2 Sees A Vulkan Renderer Added Via DXVK   Valve   2021-02-19
Mir 2.3.2 Released With Better XWayland HiDPI, Copy/Paste Between Wayland/XWayland   Ubuntu   2021-02-11
DXVK 1.7.3 Released With Fixes, Support For New DXGI Interfaces   Linux Gaming   2020-12-02
KDE Has Another Week Worth Of Wayland Fixes   KDE   2020-11-21
GIMP 2.99.2 Released With GTK3 UI, Working Wayland Support, Other Big Changes   Desktop   2020-11-06
NetBSD Changes Its Default X11 Window Manager After Two Decades   BSD   2020-09-28
Many Linux Developers Are Ecstatic Over Fedora On Lenovo Systems   Hardware   2020-08-31
LibreOffice 7.0 Released As The Open-Source, Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-08-05
LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 Released For This Vulkan-Supported Open-Source Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-07-18
KDE Plasma 5.20 Seeing More Wayland Fixes   KDE   2020-07-11
KDE Seeing Fresh Improvements For HiDPI Support   KDE   2020-07-09
LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 Is Out For Testing This Skia+Vulkan Open-Source Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-07-06
KDE Starts July With More Fixes, More QML'ing In The System Settings Area   KDE   2020-07-04
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta 2 Released For This Open-Source, Vulkan-Supported Office Suite   LibreOffice   2020-06-22
KDE Developers Begin Working More On Plasma 5.20 Changes   KDE   2020-06-13
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta Available For Testing With Its Skia+Vulkan Support   LibreOffice   2020-06-01
Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Released   Multimedia   2020-05-24
LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering   LibreOffice   2020-05-14
The Latest Pango + HarfBuzz Is Leading To A Messy Font Rendering Situation For Some   Desktop   2020-05-09
Inkscape 1.0 Released For This Wildly Successful Vector Graphics Program   Free Software   2020-05-04
KDE Saw More Wayland Improvements This Week, Other Enhancements   KDE   2020-04-25
Ardour 6.0-RC1 Digital Audio Workstation Released With Experimental Web Interface   Multimedia   2020-04-19
Mir 1.8 Released With HiDPI Improvements, Better Compatibility Outside Of Ubuntu   Wayland   2020-04-16
Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate Emerges For This Excellent Vector Graphics Editor   Free Software   2020-04-13
Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Sees First Pre-Release   Multimedia   2020-03-27
LibreOffice 7.0 Git Adds Skia-Based Text Rendering Support   LibreOffice   2020-03-18
LibreOffice 7.0's Qt5 Support To Offer HiDPI Scaling   LibreOffice   2020-03-10
GNOME 3.36 Lands Scaled/Transformed Hardware Cursors Support   GNOME   2020-02-28
MATE 1.24 Released For Letting GNOME 2 Continuation Live On In 2020   GNOME   2020-02-10
Linux Mint Debian 4 Coming - Rebased Against Debian 10, Adds "Boot With NVIDIA" Option   Operating Systems   2020-01-31
Mir 1.7 Released With Improvements For Running X11 Software   Ubuntu   2020-01-16
GNOME 3.35.3 Released As Another Step To GNOME 3.36   GNOME   2020-01-10
GNOME 3.34.3 Released To Offer Up More Fixes Ahead Of GNOME 3.36   GNOME   2020-01-09
GNOME Shell 3.35.3 Released With NVIDIA Driver Offloading, Fixes To Shell + Mutter   GNOME   2020-01-05
The 2010s Were Very Successful For Wine Thanks To CodeWeavers + Valve's Steam Play   WINE   2019-12-26
Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" Released With Better HiDPI Support, App Changes   Operating Systems   2019-12-18
Qt 5.14 Released With Better HiDPI, Lots Of 3D Work Ahead Of Qt 6 Next Year   Qt   2019-12-12
Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 Released   Debian   2019-12-05
Qt 5.14 On Track For Releasing Next Week With New Scenegraph Renderer, Better HiDPI   Qt   2019-12-04
Linux Mint 19.3 Enters Beta With HiDPI Support Finally Nearing Completion, New Default Apps   Operating Systems   2019-12-03
KDE Got More Polishing Ahead Of The Holidays While First KDE Frameworks 6 Sprint Started   KDE   2019-11-24
Debian 10.2 Released With The Latest Security Fixes   Debian   2019-11-16
Linux Mint Pulling In MPV-Based Celluloid Media Player + Dropping Last Mono Dependency   Operating Systems   2019-10-31
Qt 5.14 Beta 2 Released As Another Chance To Test The Big Toolkit Update   Qt   2019-10-24
KDE Plasma 5.17 Released With Wayland Improvements, Better HiDPI   KDE   2019-10-15
Qt 5.14 Rolls To Beta Stage With Graphics API Independent Scenegraph Renderer   Qt   2019-10-09
KDE Kicked Off October With Dolphin Improvements, Continued HiDPI Work   KDE   2019-10-06
Qt 5.14 Hits Alpha With Major Renderer Work, Better HiDPI Support   Qt   2019-09-25
KDE Plasma 5.17 Beta Rolls Out With Wayland Improvements, Overhauled Settings   KDE   2019-09-19
The State Of Qt Quick Vulkan Support With Qt 5.14   Qt   2019-09-16
KDE's KWin Options UI Improved, Various Other Enhancements During Akademy Week   KDE   2019-09-15
Qt 5.14 Is Bringing Significantly Better HiDPI Support   Qt   2019-09-13
KDE Now Supports Fractional Scaling On Wayland   Wayland   2019-09-08
Linux Mint 19.3 To Further Enhance Its HiDPI Support   Operating Systems   2019-09-03
Xfce 4.14 Desktop Officially Released   Desktop   2019-08-12
GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.33.4 Released   GNOME   2019-07-20
KDE's kstart5 Now Works On Wayland, No More HiDPI Screen Flickering At Start-Up   KDE   2019-07-14
Xfce 4.14 "Pre2" Brings Bug Fixes, GLX Compositing Improvements & More   Desktop   2019-07-01
SDL2 Adds Wayland HiDPI Support   Wayland   2019-06-12
KDE's KWin Now Correctly Shows Emojis In Titlebars, Wayland Fixes   KDE   2019-05-05
Wio: Plan 9's Rio Windowing System Re-Implemented As A Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-05-01
KDE Plasma 5.16 Will Stop Resetting Your HiDPI Scaling When Changing Displays   KDE   2019-04-28
Ubuntu 19.04 Released As A Big Linux Desktop Improvement Thanks To GNOME 3.32   Ubuntu   2019-04-18
GLFW 3.3 Adds Vulkan macOS Support Via MoltenVK, Better HiDPI & Scaling   Free Software   2019-04-16
KDE Plasma 5.16 & KDE Frameworks 5.57 Development Remains Quite Busy   KDE   2019-04-07
A Look At The Many Improvements & New Features In GNOME 3.32   GNOME   2019-03-13
Sway 1.0 Released For This i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-03-11
QEMU's EDID Support Coming Together, Allowing For Eventual HiDPI Support   Virtualization   2019-03-09
GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.31.92 Bring Fractional Scaling, Updated Screen-Casting API   GNOME   2019-03-05
GNU Octave 5.1 Released With HiDPI Support, Drops OSMesa Usage   GNU   2019-03-02
GNOME 3.32 Lands Long-Awaited Fractional Scaling Support   GNOME   2019-03-01
The Most Interesting Highlights To The Linux 5.0 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2019-02-22
Fedora 30 Will Have Firefox Wayland By Default But Could Be Reverted If Too Buggy   Fedora   2019-02-18
KDE Plasma 5.15 Released With Wayland Improvements, Fixes To "Annoying Problems"   KDE   2019-02-12
LibreOffice 6.2 Shipping Today With User Interface Improvements, Many New Features   LibreOffice   2019-02-07
Fedora 30 Planning To Use Wayland-Enabled Firefox By Default   Fedora   2019-01-25
Wine 4.0 Officially Released With Vulkan Support, Initial Direct3D 12 & Better HiDPI   WINE   2019-01-22
Inkscape 1.0 Alpha Released For This Leading Open-Source Vector Graphics Program   Desktop   2019-01-18
KDE Plasma 5.15 Beta Released With Some Grand Improvements   KDE   2019-01-17
Linux 5.0-rc1 Debuts With New Hardware Support, FreeSync, I3C, High-Res Scrolling   Linux Kernel   2019-01-06
The Many Features Coming To The Wine 4.0 Stable Release From Vulkan To New Input Devices   WINE   2018-12-31
Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 18.12 Adds Btrfs Install Support With Zstd Compression   Operating Systems   2018-12-29
Linux 4.21 Picking Up New Console Font For HiDPI / Retina Screens   Linux Kernel   2018-12-29
VirtualBox 6.0 Released With Better HiDPI Support, VMSVGA 3D Graphics On Linux   Oracle   2018-12-18
Wine 4.0 Release Preparations Begin For Much Improved Windows Games / Apps On Linux   WINE   2018-11-25
GSConnect 15 Offers Better Phone Integration With The GNOME Shell   GNOME   2018-11-09
Fedora Developers Update Firefox For Wayland With V-Sync, HiDPI, Better Rendering   Fedora   2018-10-09
Sway 1.0 Alpha 6 Released, Now Supports Moving/Resizing Tiled Windows With The Mouse   Wayland   2018-09-22
KDE Plasma 5.14 Beta Brings Many Improvements, Especially Wayland Polishing   KDE   2018-09-13
KDE Frameworks 5.50 Brings Big Updates For KTextEditor, Improvements To KWayland   KDE   2018-09-09
KDE Plasma 5.14 Offers A Hibernate Option From The Logout, HiDPI Dolphin Improvements   KDE   2018-09-09
Qt Creator 4.7 Released With Clang Code Model Turned On By Default   Qt   2018-07-18
Unity 2018.2 Released With Lightweight Render Pipeline, Vulkan & HiDPI Support In Editor   Linux Gaming   2018-07-10
Elementary OS Juno Beta 1 Released   Operating Systems   2018-07-03
KDE Finally Offers An Easy Global Shortcut To Launch The Konsole   KDE   2018-07-01
Systemd 239 Is Being Prepped For Release With Many Changes   systemd   2018-06-12
Linux Mint 19 Beta Released   Operating Systems   2018-06-04
The Many Wayland Improvements In Qt 5.11   Qt   2018-05-29
GNOME's 2018 Performance Hackfest Wraps Up In Cambridge   GNOME   2018-05-16
Unity 2018.2 Beta Brings Vulkan Support To The Unity Editor   Linux Gaming   2018-05-07
KDE's Discover, Okular, Gwenview & K3B See Improvements   KDE   2018-05-06
GIMP Now Moving Full Steam Ahead With Their GTK3 Port   Free Software   2018-05-01