vincentbernat.i3wm-configuration/bin/xsettingsd-setup

#!/bin/sh

DISPLAY=${DISPLAY%.0}

# For information
xrandr --current \
    | sed -n 's/^\([^ ]\{1,\}\)* connected.* \([0-9]\{1,\}\)x.* \([0-9]\{1,\}\)mm x .*/\1 \2 \3/p' \
    | while read output pixels mm; do
    dpi=$(($pixels * 254 / 10 / $mm))
    # For laptop screens, we need to apply a correction factor
    case $output in
        eDP-1|eDP1) corrected=$(($dpi * 96/144)) ;;
        *) corrected=$dpi
    esac
    # Authorized factors: 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, ...
    rounded=$(((corrected + 24) / 48 * 48))
    [ $rounded -gt 192 ] && rounded=$(((corrected + 48) / 96 * 96))
    [ $rounded -lt 96 ] && rounded=96
    echo "$output: ${dpi}dpi (corrected to ${corrected}dpi, rounded to ${rounded}dpi)" >&2
done

# Don't try to guess DPI. For a laptop, we don't want the same DPI as
# for an external screen. Just hardcode stuff...
case $(hostname),$(autorandr --current) in
    zoro,default)       dpi=144 ;;
    guybrush,default)   dpi=144 ;;
    neo,*)              dpi=192 ;;
    *,*)                dpi=96 ;;
esac

xrandr --dpi $dpi

# Build xsettingsd.local
{
    cat  ~/.config/awesome/xsettingsd
    echo Xft/DPI $(( $1*1024 ))
    echo Xft/RGBA \"$( [ $1 -gt 144 ] && echo none || echo rgb )\"
    echo Gdk/WindowScalingFactor $(( $1/96 ))
    echo Gdk/UnscaledDPI $(( $1*1024/($1/96) ))
} > ~/.xsettingsd

# Signal xsettingsd
systemctl --user reload xsettingsd@$(systemd-escape -- "$DISPLAY").service

# Also use xrdb for very old stuff (you know, LibreOffice)
echo Xft.dpi: $dpi | xrdb -merge