I also had this issue this morning, and very quickly after a video by the one and only Erik Dubois helped me out.
https://madiator.com/@arcolinux:8/arcolinux-2336-fix-font-too-big-or-too:f A couple of other recents on his channel that you can take a look at that have to do with different environments like your display manager. https://madiator.com/@arcolinux:8 I had to add the following line to .Xresources, setting my DPI. Xft.dpi: 96 Worked like a charm. Of course, set the 96 to whatever your DPI might be. Happy hacking, Matthew "Madness" Evan. "Javier via arch-general" [email protected] – November 10, 2021 7:38 PM > Hello ! > > I've been using LXQt for some time now (years), and with Today's Arch > upgrade, which included a LXQt upgrade 0.17.0-1 -> 1.0.0-1, everything was > showing app really big, from LXQt own text (menus, icons, widgets, etc) to > other apps. The only work around I found was to reduce the font size on > LXQt's preferences, and also on Qterminal, I had to change it from like 18 to > 10 on Qterminal, and from 16 to 10 on LXQt itself. I still see other apps > bigger than what they used to be, and in particular the apps' toolbar became > wider, and the border surrounding Qt apps became wider (to the point it's > annoying). > > It's not about manipulating QT_SCALE_FACTOR + QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR, > and the like, because that's to make things bigger when they look way to > small and unreadable. Actually by setting QT_SCALE_FACTOR to 1, its the same > behavior as not setting any variable, and lower than 0 values don't really > work on Qt (I tried, and the results are really weird, non functional to say > the least). > > Have other lxqt users experienced the same on Arch? Would it be an Arch > building and packaging issue? Or this is totally an upstream thing? > > Thanks ! > >
