One related question, but not Awesome defined/related (I don't think), how
I can increase the size of the pointer used in my xterm? I've managed to
adjust the font size, but the pointer is now half height.


On 24 August 2014 11:12, Paul Jolly <[email protected]> wrote:

> Awesome. Thanks very much
>
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> On 24 August 2014 11:01, Uli Schlachter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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