[i3-discuss] Re: Extremely tiny fonts with 4k monitor with i3

  • From: Zenny <garbytrash@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:40:05 +0100

On 12/15/15, Michael Stapelberg <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

12/15/2015 10:07:56 AM - main.c:main:494 - root_screen->height_in_pixels =
2160, root_screen->height_in_millimeters = 279, dpi = 196
12/15/2015 10:07:56 AM - main.c:main:495 - One logical pixel corresponds to
3 physical pixels on this display.

You might want to use a DPI of 192 (for clean 2x scaling) instead of 196,
but that’s up to you.

Thanks for the pointer.


You’re using a pixel font, which cannot be scaled:
12/15/2015 10:07:56 AM - config_parser.c:parse_config:313 - CONFIG(line
16): font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1

Once you switch to a pango-based font, window decorations should be
properly scaled.

Yep, with the previous configuration it worked fine, but with the
default configuration that was shipped with i3x distro, the issue
remained the same despite shifting to pango-based font.

fyi, logfile is at:
http://logs.i3wm.org/logs/5727517264576512.bz2


Fonts within applications are not influenced by i3, for that you’ll need to
follow e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI

I shall check the link.


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Zenny <garbytrash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 12/15/15, Michael Stapelberg <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Which version of i3? Make sure you run at least 4.11. If that doesn’t
help,
please file an issue at https://github.com/i3/i3

$ i3 --moreversion 2>&- || i3 --version
Binary i3 version: 4.11 (2015-09-30, branch "4.11") © 2009 Michael
Stapelberg and contributors

and supply a logfile.

Here it is:
http://logs.i3wm.org/logs/5684961520648192.bz2


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Zenny <garbytrash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

The fonts are rendered extremely tiny (unreadable) with i3 in 4k
monitor.

§1. I tried with 'startx -- -dpi 196', but that just increases the
size of the workspace bar and not other application windows.

§2. I also added a line in .i3/config file with a larger fontsize:
'font pango:DejaVu Sans 10'

§3. I tried with 'xrandr --dpi 196'

§4. Tried with 'Xft.dpi: 196' in .Xresources file.

On all accounts, there was no changes at all.

Found a similar thread at


https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/31d0wp/i3_and_hidpi_display_everything_is_to_tiny/

Is there a way to overcome this problem? Thanks.

/z




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Best regards,
Michael





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Best regards,
Michael


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