Known issue: some apps doesn't scale properly

[Magnitudexx]

Some apps don't want to scale properly. Apps known not to scale:

rofi
alacritty

If anyone finds other apps that doesn't scale, comment and i will update the list. For the moment i will not work on this because i feel that isn't strictly needed right now but if someone can look at the codebase and find a solution feel free to make a PR

[werererer]

What is meant with scaling? like when you change screen resolution use a bigger monitor or something? like what do you execute to scale?

[Magnitudexx]

I've tested with applying a scale value greater then 1 to a HiDPI monitor. Most clients scale appropriately, that is they get "bigger" so that they look more natural. Some programs doesn't though and still look "small".

[werererer]

so you are saying they get bigger but look off?

[werererer]

Honestly this doesn't look like a problem we can fix. Test it in sway if it also occurs there we have to open an issue at those softwares' repositories.

[Magnitudexx]

been running both sway and dwl and this issue does appear there. I'm not super well versed in wayland but could it be something with how a monitors scale is exposed to clients?

[Magnitudexx]

but also havent run any off them setting scale with kanshi so maybe it's a problem with that

[Magnitudexx]

Nope thats not it either

[werererer]

You have to contact the wlroots developers directly to get further help this seems to be an error either in wlroots then or those applications. Can you do it since you understand the issue better than me? Here is the link to their repository: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/