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

[Antoine Martin]

trunk now supports setting the dpi with "xpra --dpi=NN", details here:
https://www.xpra.org/trac/ticket/163#comment:7

Cheers
Antoine


On 08/02/2012 01:58 AM, Antoine Martin wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
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