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From: Simon Bruder <simon@sbruder.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:28:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Fix=20alacritty=E2=80=99s=20too=20small=20font?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20on=20external=20monitor?=
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Alacritty scales relative to the physical monitor size (which is a cool
feature for HiDPI monitors). Since my external monitor is LoDPI, this
makes the text unreadable.

`xrdb -remove` is useful for when I have to add a HiDPI monitor
temporarily
---
 home/.Xdefaults                      | 3 +++
 home/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/home/.Xdefaults b/home/.Xdefaults
index c16db10..1ffc1bb 100644
--- a/home/.Xdefaults
+++ b/home/.Xdefaults
@@ -23,3 +23,6 @@ URxvt*pointerBlank: True
 
 ! No scrollbar
 URxvt*scrollBar: False
+
+! Force same dpi (for alacritty)
+Xft.dpi: 96
diff --git a/home/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml b/home/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
index 8717908..3c9c6dc 100644
--- a/home/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
+++ b/home/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ font:
     family: Iosevka Nerd Font
     style: Regular
 
-  size: 8
+  size: 13.5
 
 mouse:
   hide_when_typing: true