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Re: DPI setting not respected in version 1.14.4
- From: Kostas Avgeropoulos <k dot avgeropoulos at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:52:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: DPI setting not respected in version 1.14.4
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Thanks for the prompt reply.
Actually after I installed xdpyinfo (with a few dependencies that I
unfortunately did not take note of) and restarted X server, DPI 80 is
there again. No idea how this got fixed.
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 20/11/2013 16:53, Kostas Avgeropoulos wrote:
>> My Windows shortcut is
>>
>> 'C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startxwin.exe
>> -- -clipboard -emulate3buttons -dpi 80"'
>>
>> Yet Cygwin/X does not seem to respect the DPI setting. Fonts are too big.
>>
>> This worked with previous versions of Cygwin/X.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> I can't reproduce this:
>
> $ startxwin -- -clipboard -emulate3buttons -dpi 80
>
> $ xdpyinfo -display :1 | grep resolution
> resolution: 80x80 dots per inch
>
> Can I please see your /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log?
>
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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