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Everything very zoomed out on Arch Linux with i3-gaps

Hello,
    I own a Dell XPS 13 with a 1920x1080 screen. I recently installed Arch and decided to give i3 without a DE a try (first time doing so). i3's tiling features are amazing, but it also lacks the general working-out-of-the-box-ness of stuff like XFCE which I used in the past. One issue was with the screen resolution. Everything is very zoomed out, and to see what is going on I have to move my face very close to the screen which I hate to do. It used to be in my Ubuntu days that I would go into a settings panel in Unity, and set the 'scale of window and title bars' to 1.25 and everything would be nice and readable even from a distance. However I can't find anything similar for i3. Any recommendations?

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Re: Everything very zoomed out on Arch Linux with i3-gaps

xdpyinfo | grep resolution
xrandr --dpi 170 # applies only to processes started afterwards, add to your start scripts

Depending on what else is "small",  you might have to make adjustments to xrdb, either via ~/.Xresources (and "xrdb -m ~/.Xresources") or ~/.Xdefaults

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Re: Everything very zoomed out on Arch Linux with i3-gaps

... I would go into a settings panel in Unity, and set the 'scale of window and title bars' to 1.25 ... I can't find anything similar for i3.

https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#fonts

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Re: Everything very zoomed out on Arch Linux with i3-gaps

xdpyinfo | grep resolution
xrandr --dpi 170 # applies only to processes started afterwards, add to your start scripts

Depending on what else is "small",  you might have to make adjustments to xrdb, either via ~/.Xresources (and "xrdb -m ~/.Xresources") or ~/.Xdefaults

This scales up things like dmenu but for some reason firefox remains the same

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Re: Everything very zoomed out on Arch Linux with i3-gaps

firefox remains the same

Go to about:config, and change layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to e.g. 1.1 or 1.2

Source.