0

Since the last system update, for various applications the font size has increased. Even one application for which I can be sure, that it has not been replaced, because I have a custom version and install it from source (see dmenu).

Increased DMenu-Font

As you can see in the picture, the font for dmenu appears ridiculously large. The screenshot also shows which font was specified in the source code and the output of fc-list, which indicates, that the font is installed.

Some other applications (such as gimp) show a similar phenomenon.

Gimp ridiculous font size

The overall resolution is full hd 1920x1080.

What happened and how can I reverse it? It is surprising to me, that some applications such as the terminal (alacritty) or VS Code still render fine. I already checked here and made sure that no nvidia drivers are installed (ie. sudo pacman -Q | grep nvidia shows no output)

Improve this question
2
  • Try searching Google for arcolinux's YouTube channel. Eric has a few recent videos about this. Commented Nov 12, 2021 at 2:41
  • What you describe may be this issue, introduced in xserver 21.1 by a change that, according to the comment the link points to, is apparently going to be reverted (found via this thread on bbs.archlinux.org). Commented Nov 12, 2021 at 15:14

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
1

First I installed the xorg-xrdb package which provides X11 access to the file .Xresources .

sudo pacman -S xorg-xrdb

Then I created .Xresources inside my home directory with the following content

*.dpi: 96

Lastly I have to make sure that .Xresources is loaded, so I added the following line to my .xinitrc

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.