Gnome 42 Update and Dark Mode - Settings with Fractional Scaling (gnome-control-center-x11-scaling)

Hi, I’ve now explained the issue with gnome-control-center for users of the scaling packages in the stable update announcement, I take that as my fault!
However, I’ve updated the HowTo some time ago in the hope to avoid this situation for the users.

Please install gnome-control-center from the repo after this update and reboot.

pamac install gnome-control-center

gnome-control-center-x11-scaling is currently not available for GNOME 42, because Ubuntu is using version 41 for their current LTS and the patches have not been ported.

You can still use mutter-x11-scaling but will have to enable/disable fractional scaling via gsettings.
To enable fractional scaling after installation run:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['x11-randr-fractional-scaling']"

To disable fractional scaling run:

gsettings reset org.gnome.mutter experimental-features

See also here and here.

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