How to rescale screen with awesome

Question

After installed awesome wm, I used xrandr to change my resolution with xrandr -s 1920x1080

but the screen seem to be at 50% of scale Tried to restart awesome wm but not working

So how do I re-scaling it to 100%

Scaling resolution to 100%

Answer 1

AwesomeWM does not handle screen scaling or resolution in any way. Sometime you need a magic xrandr incantation. Also make sure you set the DPI correctly and the font scale in Qt, Chome/Firefox and GTK settings. The classic value is 96.