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Re: cygwinX xwin resolution
- From: Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: "Dr. Rob Higgins" <rob dot higgins at utoronto dot ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:25:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: cygwinX xwin resolution
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On 22/07/2016 05:23, Dr. Rob Higgins wrote:
I cannot find, after two days, any documentation on how and where to
specify resolution parameters. I must be barking up the wrong trees.
My laptop under Windows has recommended resolution set at 3200 x 1800
CygwinX X Windows are much to small, and barely readable.
I guess this means that e.g. xterm font is too small, and so a 80x24
character window is small?
Can anyone just tell me where to look, or what to specify?
To answer the specific question, you can specify the a display
resolution using the '-dpi' option.
The "configuration" chapter of the user guide [1] points to "man XWin"
[2], which in turn points to "man Xserver" [3] for general server
options, including that one.
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.html
[2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/XWin.1.html
[3] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html
If changing that helps, I'd be very interested to know what the
autodetected value for dpi is, which is reported in /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log
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Jon Turney
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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