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Posted by nils.holle on 2025-05-25.
I tried to run Ansel on Fedora 42 (Silverblue). With the Darktable Flatpak, I could start in Wayland mode just fine. I tried to set GDK_BACKEND=wayland and run the latest Ansel AppImage, but I still get an X11 window (confirmed with xeyes) and thus everything is blurry with 150% fractional scaling on Gnome. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Thanks!
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