Fixing Various HiDPI Issues on Archlinux

Mar 26, 2016

Notes on getting various applications to work nicely with HiDPI monitors.

Spotify

Spotify can be too small. To fix it, spotify needs to be started with --force-device-scale-factor=1.8. To avoid having to add the flag each time you start spotify, you can try a couple of things:

Edit /usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop and change the Exec=... line to Exec=spotify --force-device-scale-factor=1.8 %U
Edit the spotify executable to automatically be called with the force-device-scale-factor flag. sudo vim /usr/bin/spotify. Adjusted contents of this file at the time of this writing:

#!/bin/sh
LD_PRELOAD=libcurl.so.3 /usr/share/spotify/spotify --force-device-scale-factor=1.8 "$@"