[arch-general] Setup of HiDPI with awesome wm

[nhasian at gmail.com]

I'll admit that I'm not familiar with awesome wm, but I just wanted to let
you know that the new version of i3 that just hit Arch a few days ago now
supports HiDPI displays.  I'm looking forward to trying it when the Lenovo
Y50 w/HiDPI becomes available next month.


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:28 AM, tlux <tlux at ghelew.ch> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It's the first time I am requesting help through this distribution list. So
> excuse me if I am in the wrong place.
>
> So, here is my point:
> I have a lenovo T540p with a 3K screen display and, as
> one could image, I have very small fonts and icons which are barelly
> visible at
> normal distance from the screen. I've manage to increase fonts size in  my
> configurations files. However, from time to time I need to connect to a 19"
> monitor(1280x1024) and the result is terrible (to say the least).
>
> Is there someone who is in the same situation? and what is your workaround?
> Please note that I am using Awesome WM and thus cannot use the scaling
> factor(Gnome 3) as described here:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
>
> One option I thought of would be to create an udev rule that would detect
> the monitor's connection and trigger a script that would make all the
> necessary
> connfiguration changes. What do you guys think?
>
> Thanks!
>