Re: [dev] [dwm]: something like the xfce scale all windows feature

From: T Taylor Gurney <ttgurney_AT_ttgurney.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 11:58:16 -0500

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 01:09:04PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> I've got one of the high-res monitors and everything looks really
> tiny. I notec xfce4 has this
> "scale everything by 2" feature that addresses this, what's the
> easiest way to get this in dwm?
>
> I didn't see any patch saying it does it, might have missed one though
> there are so many now :)
>

With dwm I just use something like the following, which is in my .xinitrc:

  xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 0.5

I'm sure there are other ways to do it that make things look nicer, but my
guess is that this is the simplest.

Taylor
Received on Fri Jul 01 2022 - 18:58:16 CEST