I'll admit that I'm not familiar with awesome wm, but I just wanted to let you know that the new version of i3 that just hit Arch a few days ago now supports HiDPI displays. I'm looking forward to trying it when the Lenovo Y50 w/HiDPI becomes available next month. On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:28 AM, tlux <tlux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > It's the first time I am requesting help through this distribution list. So > excuse me if I am in the wrong place. > > So, here is my point: > I have a lenovo T540p with a 3K screen display and, as > one could image, I have very small fonts and icons which are barelly > visible at > normal distance from the screen. I've manage to increase fonts size in my > configurations files. However, from time to time I need to connect to a 19" > monitor(1280x1024) and the result is terrible (to say the least). > > Is there someone who is in the same situation? and what is your workaround? > Please note that I am using Awesome WM and thus cannot use the scaling > factor(Gnome 3) as described here: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI > > One option I thought of would be to create an udev rule that would detect > the monitor's connection and trigger a script that would make all the > necessary > connfiguration changes. What do you guys think? > > Thanks! >
