A Flawless i3wm experience on a HiDPI/Retina display

A Flawless i3wm experience on a HiDPI/Retina display

Friday - June 29, 2018

Create / Edit ~/.Xresources with the following values:

Xft.dpi: 192
URxvt.font: xft:FiraMono-Regular:size=10
Xft.autohint: 0
Xft.lcdfilter:  lcddefault
Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.rgba: rgb

Create / Edit ~/.profile with the following:

export GDK_SCALE=2
export GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5
export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1

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