Hey,

On 24.08.2014 11:51, Paul Jolly wrote:
> This almost worked for me, except that the menus are not correctly drawn;
> the font appears to be the correct, larger size, but the menus themselves
> don't appear to have grown to accommodate the larger font.
> 
> Any thoughts?

My thought is the "menu_height" option in your theme.

Awesome bases its wibox height on the font height (1.5 times the font height),
but the menu_height seems to be hardcoded in the theme.

Cheers,
Uli

> On 22 March 2014 14:14, Uli Schlachter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hey,
>>
>> On 22.03.2014 11:30, Dan Milon wrote:
>>> I installed archlinux & awesome on a macbook pro with a retina
>>> display. As you can imagine everything was super tiny. I added "Xft.dpi
>>> = 196" to xrdb and now gtk, qt etc apps display normally, but the awesome
>>> status bar still shows tiny.
>>>
>>> It seems that awesome itself is unaffected by "Xft.dpi".
>>> Do you have any idea what I could do to fix this?
>>
>> No idea if this actually works, but (if you are using 3.5, which I think
>> you
>> are), you could try adding the following to the *beginning* (beginning is
>> the
>> very first line of your config, not later) of your rc.lua:
>>
>>   require("lgi").PangoCairo.font_map_get_default():set_resolution(196)
>>
>> Please tell me if this has any effect.
>>
>> Uli
>>
>>
>> P.S.: For future-Uli: Google knows about gdk_screen_get_resolution() and
>> Debian
>> code search figured out that this function is used in a call to
>> pango_cairo_context_set_resolution() inside
>> gtk_widget_update_pango_context().
>>
>> P.P.S.: It would be nice to figure out if lgi let's us use
>> gdk_screen_get_resolution() and gdk_screen_get_font_options() so that they
>> can
>> be used in wibox.widget.textbox. No idea how yet, but if we figure out a
>> way to
>> map gdk screens to awesome screens, that could be used for implementing
>> this
>> "properly". Or we just link awesome against Gdk and use this code properly
>> and
>> get rid of awesome's screens, but that might result in a fight about who
>> owns
>> the X11 connection...
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