Merge pull request #3553 from stapelberg/hidpi
userguide: add a section about hidpi displays
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Because i3 is not a compositing window manager, there is no ability to
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Because i3 is not a compositing window manager, there is no ability to
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display a window on two screens at the same time. Instead, your presentation
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display a window on two screens at the same time. Instead, your presentation
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software needs to do this job (that is, open a window on each screen).
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software needs to do this job (that is, open a window on each screen).
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[[hidpi]]
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=== High-resolution displays (aka HIDPI displays)
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See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI for details on how to enable
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scaling in various parts of the Linux desktop. i3 will read the desired DPI from
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the `Xft.dpi` property. The property defaults to 96 DPI, so to achieve 200%
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scaling, you’d set `Xft.dpi: 192` in `~/.Xresources`.
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If you are a long-time i3 user who just got a new monitor, double-check that:
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* You are using a scalable font (starting with “pango:”) in your i3 config.
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* You are using a terminal emulator which supports scaling. You could
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temporarily switch to gnome-terminal, which is known to support scaling out of
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the box, until you figure out how to adjust the font size in your favorite
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terminal emulator.
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