UI is scaled down

[Thorsten Wißmann]

Hi famubu,

I think all answers should be in the arch-wiki page for HiDPI in the
wiki. I don't recommend using --scale to xrandr.

If you use plain hlwm (e.g. from your .xinitrc), you should simply set
all the environment options available to fix the DPI. I assume that
there is a system wide setting of hidpi created by the installer. So
probably, the best way to solve is to look through your X11
configuration in

    /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

and the default profile files in

    /etc/profile.d

to see whether there are any options regarding dpi.

hlwm itself does not do anything about the DPI setting: it just takes
what X11 is offering.

Best,
Thorsten


On Mon, Dec 06, 2021, at 06:56 (+0000), famubu at rawtext.club wrote:
> Hi. I recently got a Lenovo thinkpad E series laptop and wanted to use
> hlwm with it.
> 
> The entire display, right from the command line accessible from BIOS to
> the font-size in terminals, is a bit too tiny.
> 
> Does this have something to do with HiDPI displays or something? I don't
> even know if my display is of that kind (resolution is 1080). Just
> thought it was a a possibility after seeing [this post][1] in arch wiki.
> I'm using debian 11 though.
> 
> I tried xfce and after setting 'Custom DPI' option to 144 from 96, it
> was scaled up okay.  Also tried cinnamon but same issue there.
> 
> How can we get a similar thing with hlwm? Have anyone faced a similar
> issue before?
> 
> I tried using `xrandr` like
> 
> ```
> xrandr --output eDP1 --scale 0.9x0.9
> ```
> 
> But that results in reduced clarity and some part of the screen being invisible.
> 
> I fiddled around with ~/.Xresources and did
> 
> ```
> xterm*faceName: Monospace
> xterm*faceSize: 11
> ```
> 
> and terminal font size became readable again. But the UI itself is
> still scaled down.
> 
> Tried setting `Xft.dpi: 144` in ~./Xresources too.
> 
> Even browsers (like firefox, qutebrowser) and file explorers (thunar)
> have their UI in such a way that it appears scaled down.
> 
> [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI
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