[SOLVED] i3 configuration wizard help needed

MAYBL8 · 2023-06-29 17:12:56

I have read the arch wiki on i3
Researched various articles relating to i3 but can't find where to fix this problem.
I have changed font size in the /etc/i3/config file
I have changed the screen resolution in both lightdm and the i3 config file with no result.
I have xrandr set to 1920x1080

The problem I am trying to solve is the text in the i3 first configuration box is very tiny.
I am missing some setting somewhrere.

There must be some secret undocumented setting I can't find.

Maybe I shouldn't use i3 on this Laptop with 4k screen.

Here is what I have in my /etc/i3/config file right now:

# Font for window titles. Will also be used by the bar unless a different font
# is used in the bar {} block below.
font pango:monospace 26

# This font is widely installed, provides lots of unicode glyphs, right-to-left
# text rendering and scalability on retina/hidpi displays (thanks to pango).
font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 32
output * resolution --custom 800x600

Last edited by MAYBL8 (2023-06-29 22:08:47)

Trilby · 2023-06-29 18:03:40

MAYBL8 wrote:

I have changed font size in the /etc/i3/config file

Which instructions said to edit that file? You realize that that is the last place i3 checks for a config file, so there's a very good chance that this file isn't used at all if a config file exists in any of the other locations (which it will if you ran the config tool already).

MAYBL8 wrote:

The problem I am trying to solve is the text in the i3 first configuration box is very tiny.

I'm not sure what you mean ... what "box" are you referring to?

MAYBL8 · 2023-06-29 19:39:23

Let's see if I can explain this better.

I have installed i3-gaps package and lightdm

When I login to the system it takes me to an i3 first configuration dialog box
The text inside that box is so small I can't even read it.

I think it is asking me questions to get i3 installed .
I don't want to answer the questions wrong but I can't read them.

From another post on a different site I think it says this in the box:

You have not configured i3 yet.
Do you want me to generate a config at
/home/xxxx/.config/i3/config.

<Enter> Yes
<Esc> No

seth · 2023-06-29 19:51:44

The text inside that box is so small I can't even read it.

More likely you forgot to install some font?

pacman -Qs 'ttf|otf|font'

Trilby · 2023-06-29 20:09:20

I suspect seth is correct above. But in any case, shouldn't it be obvious that putting a different font size in a config file could not possibly be the means to solve the problem of the font being too small in a dialog window saying you have not yet created a config file??

MAYBL8 · 2023-06-29 21:31:50

I have this but I don't see how it helps my issue.
I have a feeling that the program i3-config-wizard is an executable and whatever font is used in the code is not changeable .
I will have to find a way to get the the resolution larger some other way.

local/adobe-source-code-pro-fonts 2.042u+1.062i+1.026vf-1
    Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments
local/cantarell-fonts 1:0.303.1-1
    Humanist sans serif font
local/fontconfig 2:2.14.2-1
    Library for configuring and customizing font access
local/freetype2 2.13.1-1
    Font rasterization library
local/gnu-free-fonts 20120503-8
    A free family of scalable outline fonts
local/libfontenc 1.1.7-1
    X11 font encoding library
local/libxfont2 2.0.6-2
    X11 font rasterisation library
local/libxft 2.3.8-1
    FreeType-based font drawing library for X
local/ttf-dejavu-sans-code 1.2.2-2
    Monospaced font with programming ligatures based on DejaVu Sans Mono.
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.7-1 (xorg-fonts xorg)
    X.org font encoding files

Trilby · 2023-06-29 21:40:23

Really just make your own config!

If you want to still use the wizard program after that, then it will likely use your configured font - but IIRC all the "wizard" does is prompts you for your preferred modifier and copies over a template to your user config directory. EDIT: okay it does one other thing for non-qwerty keyboard layouts - but still this is still trivial, and apparently is known to cause trouble. So just make your own config.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-06-29 21:46:42)

MAYBL8 · 2023-06-29 22:08:16

Ok will do thanks

seth · 2023-06-29 22:22:25

Ftr:

◉ /usr/bin/i3-config-wizard 
[libi3] ../libi3/font.c Using Pango font monospace, size 8
[libi3] ../libi3/font.c Using Pango font monospace, size 8

and that seems actually hardcoded, https://github.com/i3/i3/blob/next/i3-c … ain.c#L741

MAYBL8 · 2023-06-29 22:27:08

I’d say that code needs updated.
8 is a pretty small font size .

No worries . I’m skipping the wizard.
Thanks guys

Trilby · 2023-06-29 23:23:04

Oddly there's code for a --font long option in there too, but it's ignored.

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