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How to set the ozone platform hint flag
I have a laptop with a high-res screen, running Ubuntu 22.04 and fractional scaling enabled at 175%. This works nicely for Wayland applications, but XWayland/Xorg applications become blurry. In c...
pedrotorres
Microsoft
Microsoftjoelmurphy444, AFAIK reading flags from ~/.config/microsoft-edge-stable-flags.conf is an Arch-specific patch and is not supported upstream or in other distros. See https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/microsoft-edge-stable.sh?h=microsoft-edge-stable-bin.
The PWA problem should be addressed when edge://flags/#ozone-platform-hint becomes available by enabling that flag. For now, you could edit ~/.local/share/applications/msedge-*.desktop for each PWA and add the flag there. Another option would be to add the flag to /opt/microsoft/msedge/microsoft-edge, but that would be lost upon updating the browser.
The PWA problem should be addressed when edge://flags/#ozone-platform-hint becomes available by enabling that flag. For now, you could edit ~/.local/share/applications/msedge-*.desktop for each PWA and add the flag there. Another option would be to add the flag to /opt/microsoft/msedge/microsoft-edge, but that would be lost upon updating the browser.
Oh yeah, I didn't notice it was part of the AUR package, thanks for the info!
I've gotten so used to -flags.conf (chromium-flags.conf, electron-flags.conf) that I didn't realise until now after digging into the PKGBUILDs that all these files are Arch-specific.
I indeed have been editing ~/.local/share/applications/msedge-*.desktop files, to varying degrees of success. Outlook PWA seems to overwrite its desktop file almost every time I try to use it. I went for the nuclear option in the end and set the immutable attribute on those desktop files. I'm sure this will come back to haunt me in the future.
I've gotten so used to -flags.conf (chromium-flags.conf, electron-flags.conf) that I didn't realise until now after digging into the PKGBUILDs that all these files are Arch-specific.
I indeed have been editing ~/.local/share/applications/msedge-*.desktop files, to varying degrees of success. Outlook PWA seems to overwrite its desktop file almost every time I try to use it. I went for the nuclear option in the end and set the immutable attribute on those desktop files. I'm sure this will come back to haunt me in the future.