[winswitch] [ANNOUNCE] xpra 0.3.5 / xpra 0.4.1 / xpra 0.5.0-beta1

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 19:53:06 BST 2012


If I do this with xdummy, it's better.  Fonts still look crappy compared to
running emacs directly (or via ssh -X).

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:

> On 08/02/2012 01:20 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>
>> If I comment out xvfb= from /etc/xpra/xpra.conf, it's better.  I guess
>> this is the old Xvfb version.  Still wrong dpi, but not as bad as with
>> xdummy.
>>
>>  Found a solution for you, just run this on your client before connecting
> with xpra:
> echo "Xft.dpi: 96" | xrdb -
>
> Looks like your DE (which one do you use?) or X11 startup scripts are not
> setting the Xft.dpi, so applications fallback to xdpyinfo-like data from
> somewhere (Xlib?) which has the wrong value.
>
> I will make a proper solution for trunk and 0.5.0 release.
>
> Thanks!
> Antoine
>



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