Hi everyone, please refer to the attached image above.
I’m currently using GNOME on Wayland with fractional scaling enabled (125%). While the GNOME System Settings app renders text crisply, I’ve noticed that Nautilus appears noticeably blurry—both the UI elements and the fonts.
This issue doesn’t seem to affect all apps, and it looks like Nautilus in particular isn’t handling fractional scaling as well. Is this a known limitation or bug? Are there any workarounds or tweaks that could help improve Nautilus’ rendering in this setup?
Here are some additional details:
GNOME version: 48 with Wayland session
Nautilus version: 48.0
OS: Ubuntu 25.04
Display scale: 125% via Display settings, with fractional scaling enabled
I’d appreciate any insights, confirmations, or suggestions. Thanks in advance!
Yes, it’s blurry regardless of the window size. I’m currently using a 1920x1080 24“ monitor (100% scaling) and a 1920x1200 14” laptop built-in display (125% scaling mentioned on this post).
As long as those windows are on the laptop built-in display, the symptom exists regardless of window size, even maximized.
It would be fine if all windows were blurry or all windows were crisp, but this inconsistency kind of bothers me.
Also, while this may be fine for Latin letters and numbers, for Chinese characters or Hangul, where requires higher resolution for each character, the blurriness is more distinguishable and detracts from readability.
OMG it worked! I first disabled all the extensions, which worked immediately, and then turned them on one by one to see what the problem was. It turned out to be ‘rounded corners’.
Tant mieux 