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williamkray

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Registered: 2010-11-06

Posts: 64

change XFCE DPI from command line?

I've recently acquired a laptop with rather a high-dpi screen, and i'm running XFCE on it. in order to be usable i've used the XFCE settings panel to turn the font DPI up to about 148 or so. But now i've also gotten a docking station for this laptop, and plan to use it with mutliple monitors that are each 1920x1080, and when i do the fonts look huge...

is there any way to change (on the fly) the font DPI in XFCE from the command line, without having to respawn the X session? ideally i'd like it to be something I can add to a script that also includes various xrandr commands etc. otherwise i'll have to manually change it back and forth every time i dock and undock my computer...

even better would be if i could have different monitors have different DPI settings, but i'm pretty sure XFCE doesn't have support for that yet.

any tips or tricks from other XFCE-ers out there?

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: change XFCE DPI from command line?

is there any way to change (on the fly) the font DPI in XFCE from the command line, without having to respawn the X session?

Try using xconf-query like:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/DPI -s 148
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/DPI -s 96

williamkray

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Registered: 2010-11-06

Posts: 64

Re: change XFCE DPI from command line?

i could kiss you. you're amazing. THANK YOU! try as i might, i could not find anything on my own, you have officially saved my sanity.