[winswitch] DPI fonts issue (worse with Xdummy) [MOSTLY FIXED] - was xpra 0.3.5 / xpra 0.4.1 / xpra 0.5.0-beta1

[Antoine Martin]

On 08/02/2012 01:53 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> If I do this with xdummy, it's better.  Fonts still look crappy compared
> to running emacs directly (or via ssh -X).
Can we continue this discussion on the ticket?
https://www.xpra.org/trac/ticket/163#comment:6
(apologies to the list readers)

You can attach screenshots there of what your "crappy" fonts look like.
Be aware that since the rendering is done to a virtual screen, certain 
font features like smoothing/anti-aliasing and sub-pixel rendering will 
be difficult or simply impossible.

Antoine



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