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... >> -- >> Who needs a ~/.signature anyway? >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. >> > -- - Captain, I think I should tell you I've never actually landed a starship before. - That's all right, Lieutenant, neither have I. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
