Sizes
PADD will display on screens that anywhere from 20x10 characters to over 80x26 characters.
As your screen gets smaller, you’ll be presented with less information… however, you’ll always get the most important details:
- The status of your Pi-hole (is it online, in need of an update?),
- How many ads have been blocked,
- Your hostname and IP, and
- Your CPU’s current load.
It will also run in the following modes (shown further below):
- Pico: 20x10 characters
- Nano: 24x12 characters
- Micro: 30x16 characters
- Mini: 40x18 characters
- Tiny: 53x20 characters
- Slim: 60x21 characters
- Regular: 60x22 characters (takes up the entire screen on a 3.5" Adafruit PiTFT using the Terminal font at 8x14.)
- Mega: 80x26 characters
How PADD will display on your screen depends on the size of the screen in characters, not pixels! PADD doesn’t care if it is running on a 5k Retina display on your $5,000 iMac Pro or on a $5 display you bought on eBay.
If you want to change how PADD displays on a small display attached to your Raspberry Pi, use
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setupto configure your font settings to an ideal size for you.
If you want to change how PADD displays through a terminal emulator (PuTTY, Terminal.app, iTerm2, etc.), resize your window or play with font sizes in your app of choice.
