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When increasing resolution all GUI text and buttons etc gets larger

I'll show you three examples where you see the increase in size due to the text in the terminal. I change the res with xrandr, the pic1 has 800x600 and seems OK, then in pic2 I changed res to 1856x1392 and it also seems OK but after I restart awesome I get the thing in pic3.

I have not even after 3 weeks found the solution to this so I'm stumped. What can I do?

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Solution

  • Seems like a different DPI value is detected after the change.

    There are a couple of sources Awesome asks to determine a DPI value to use.

    • Users can explicitly assign a DPI value to a screen (s.dpi = 42).
    • By default, AwesomeWM uses the following chain to detect a DPI value:
      • The value Xft.dpi from the X resource database: awesome-client 'return awesome.xrdb_get_value("", "Xft.dpi")'
      • The size of the root window as reported by the X11 server (size in px and size in mm allows to compute a DPI): awesome-client 'return require("gears.debug").dump_return{size = {root.size()}, size_mm = {root.size_mm()}}'
    • Do you set auto_dpi_enabled anywhere in your config?
      • If so... uhm, I am not quite sure currently what values are used. I think it tries to get the numbers from RandR.

    Anyway, the following command should produce the DPI value that AwesomeWM settled on: awesome-client 'local res = {} for s in screen do res[s] = s.dpi end return require("gears.debug").dump_return(res)'

    Sorry, this answer is very much not an answer. However, your question is also more of a bug report than a question... sorry.