Arch Linux

KredikShaw

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] Screen looks bad after fresh install

Hi. I installed arch this morning and been tinkering with this all day. The resolution is correct 1920x1080 but the dwm bar and the text in console and even in the explorer looks like low resolution and small. I have tried to setup the dpi but the correct dpi is set and it still looks like this. The top bar changes size and gets bigger when setting a different dpi but the text still looks like low res.

Here is my xrandr:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-D-0 disconnected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-A-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 510mm x 287mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+
   1680x1050     59.95
   1600x900      60.00
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02
   1440x900      59.89
   1280x800      59.81
   1152x864      75.00
   1280x720      60.00
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00
   832x624       74.55
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    59.94
   720x400       70.08

Here is my xdpyinfo | grep -B 2 resolution

screen #0:
  dimensions:    1920x1080 pixels (290x170 millimeters)
  resolution:    168x161 dots per inch

I just tried to use a xrandr --fbmm with the size and the top bar got bigger but text still looks blurry and in console it still looks really really small.

As i said i installed arch today and this never happened before.

Edit: ok just a stupid mistake i forgot to install a normal font. Sorry!!

Last edited by KredikShaw (2020-11-05 00:20:52)