Cut-off Modeline on HighDPI settings

[nagy]

Describe the bug
Cut-off Modeline on HighDPI settings

Precise recipe to reproduce the issue
On a HighDPI display and on a recent nixos-unstable channel I get a cut-off modeline when I run this:

nix-shell -p nyxt --run nyxt

In case you dont have a HighDPI settings enabled, I think you can switch it on for only one call with

GDK_DPI_SCALE=2 nyxt

Information

• OS name+version: NixOS unstable

• Graphics card and driver:

• Desktop environment / Window manager name+version:

• How you installed Nyxt (Guix pack, package manager, build from source): nix-shell -p nyxt --run nyxt

• Information from command copy-system-information:

  If you can't run copy-system-information, please provide the following:

  • Nyxt version (from =M-x nyxt-version= or =nyxt --version=): Nyxt version 2
  • Lisp implementation/version (if built from source):
  • Kernel name+version:
  • WebKitGTK+ | QtWebEngine version:

Output when started from a shell

[jmercouris]

Thank you for your interest in Nyxt! I think you'll have to update your configuration to change the height of the status area.

Something along the lines of:

(define-configuration status-buffer
  ((height 40)))

[nagy]

Thank you for your interest in Nyxt!

And thank you for this interesting project!

Your suggested config worked much better:

Would it make sense to adjust the status-buffer scale depending on the DPI scale per default, so that new users dont have to configure anything?

[jmercouris]

That sounds too hard to do now, but we can try it in the future :-)

[tulth]

I have a similar issue; i am using .Xresources:

Xft.dpi: 192

Some screen shots of cutoff text in various areas:
modeline:

top of github issues bar is sized strangely:

It is almost as if widget sizes are computed to the value before scaling is applied

[aadcg]

Please consider setting GDK_SCALE over GDK_DPI_SCALE. The manual section on this topic has been updated on commit 113c8a5.

#3170 may mitigate this issue. Note that these changes are available on the master branch and won't be part of the 3-series releases.

Please re-open if the issue persists.