Hello,
the title explains my issue. How to fix this? Wayland is used under zorin via login. Then the screenshot app also has to change to wayland support. Blurry screenshots are really bad.
If something i can do let me know.
Thanks for your help.
Are you using Fractional Scaling?
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Welcome to the Forum!
My System runs in Wayland, too and my Screenshots are not blurry. How are Your Display settings set up? Resolution, Refresh Rate, is Fractional Scaling active? And when You switch to Xorg, do You have the Issue, too? And could You maybe post Your Hardware Specs?
Yes i use fractional scaling. My Setup are 2 Monitors, one Monitor is my Laptop inbuild and there i have fractional scaling 125%. Because, i cannot read anything when this is so small. Fun fact is, when i create a screenshot from second monitor without fractional scaling, (100%) the screenshot is also blurry. Only when i disable fractional scaling, then it is sharp.
Thanks for your nice tip, but unfortunately i need scaling on second monitor.
Here is the Point that it is active - even when You use 100%.
And what is with changing to Xorg? Is it better then?
I changed to wayland, because of this setup with scaling and better handling functionality with different monitor sizes. I use wayland about a half year. One test back to xorg was because of steam wayland issue with bad rightclick function, but when you have used a half year wayland you cannot go back because of the performance lack of xorg. Everything is slow and not fast how it works in wayland. For me, a go back to xorg is not a option. When this scaling issue can be fixed in wayland mode, for future is this the right way in my opinion. But is the fractional scaling a feature from zorin? Or is this a specific gnome issue? Thanks for all your help. For now when i have to screenshot something, i disable fractional scaling.
The Thing is: Zorin 17 uses for the Desktop Gnome 43. That is an older Gnome Version. And so, the Wayland Implementation isn't on the same Level like You would have it with an up-to-date Gnome Desktop. You could for Example take a Look at Fedora 42. that is freshly released and offers Gnome 48 as Desktop. You could look if the Screenshot Tool works better for You.
We will see what Gnome Version in Zorin 18 will land later this Year.
This GitHub Flameshot thread may help (or hinder):
In Wayland, for now, avoid fractional scaling and use only 100%, even for High DPI monitors.
I found a trick instead: [Settings > Accessibility > Large Text].
That works for me, the text is sharp and relatively normal in size.
Brave isn't blurry anymore even without the ozone fix. On my machine, the ozone fix just causes a flickery glitch in web browsing, so I don't use ozone flags at all.
The only problem in Wayland for me right now is that I can't set my monitor to use G-Sync. It's compatible but not verified, it's just a cheap Xiaomi 165 Hz monitor. In X-Org, I can forcefully set this G-Sync.
Anyway, I also set nvidia-drm.modeset=1 in /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1"
and updated the grub with sudo update-grub to enable this. I'm not sure if it's important, but I read somewhere that it's good for Wayland use.
Welcome to the Forum!
When You use an Nvidia Card here on Zorin, it would be good to use X11/Xorg instead of Wayland. Because Nvidia and Wayland are not the best Friends here. With more up-to-date Gnome Versions and Nvida Drivers where Wayland is better supported, it should behave better - at least that is the Intention - but now here on Zorin 17 with the older Gnome Version, Xorg should offer a better Experience with Nvidia Graphics.
Yeah, it's a bit annoying. Hoping the gnome update in Zorin 18 will improve matters.
Anyone know what version of gnome/wayland will be in Zorin 18?
Well, this should be at least Gnome 46 because Ubuntu 24.04 uses that. If the Zorin Team should decide again to use a higher Gnome Version like on Zorin 17, it could be even Gnome 47.
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