Hi
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:12:10PM +0200, Chris Moore wrote:
> Package: vncserver
> Version: 3.3.7-12
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> When I use vncserver and connect from a remote machine, everything is
> much smaller than when I work directly on the desktop. This seems to
> be because the dpi setting is different.
>
> I would like to be able to specify a value for the "-dpi" flag either
> in my .vncrc file, or as a flag to the vncserver command, but that's
> not possible.
Thanks a lot for the fix.
> I made some changes to the realvncserver script to allow both of these:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --- /usr/bin/realvncserver 2006-04-27 07:12:24.000000000 +0200
> +++ realvncserver 2006-08-09 22:02:47.000000000 +0200
> @@ -115,6 +115,9 @@
> if ($pixelformat) {
> $opt{'-pixelformat'} = $pixelformat;
> }
> +if ($dpi) {
> + $opt{'-dpi'} = $dpi;
> +}
>
> chop($host = `uname -n`);
>
> @@ -123,7 +126,7 @@
> "-kill",1,"-clean",0, "-fp",1,
> "-alwaysshared",0, "-nevershared",0,
> "-httpport",1,"-basehttpport",1,
> - "-startup",1,"-once",0);
> + "-startup",1,"-once",0,"-dpi",1);
>
> $useClasses = 0;
> if (defined $vncClasses) {
> @@ -251,6 +254,7 @@
> $cmd .= " -co $colorPath" if ($colorPath);
> $cmd .= " -alwaysshared" if ($opt{'-alwaysshared'});
> $cmd .= " -nevershared" if ($opt{'-nevershared'});
> +$cmd .= " -dpi $opt{'-dpi'}" if ($opt{'-dpi'});
>
> foreach $arg (@ARGV) {
> $cmd .= " " . "edString($arg);
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I can now add "$dpi = "100";" to my ~/.vncrc and have the VNC session
> use bigger fonts.
Nice.
> Notice that the man page for Xrealvnc doesn't mention the -dpi flag,
> but it does definitely have the desired effect, and Xrealvnc's -help
> flag does document it:
>
> $ Xrealvnc -help 2>&1 | grep dpi
> -dpi int screen resolution in dots per inch
Ok.
> I can modify the manual pages and sample .vncrc file appropriately if
> my changes would be used, and if nobody else wants to do it.
That would be nice if you could do. Other wise I'll do that, but I prefer
if you do it.
Regards,
// Ola
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> Versions of packages vncserver depends on:
> ii dpkg 1.13.22 package maintenance system for
> Deb
> ii libc6 2.3.6-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-10 GCC support library
> ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
> ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-8 X11 client-side library
> ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension
> librar
> ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical
> Extraction
> ii vnc-common 3.3.7-12 Virtual network computing server
> s
> ii x11-common 1:7.0.22 X Window System (X.Org)
> infrastruc
> ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds-2.1 miscellaneous X clients
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
>
> Versions of packages vncserver recommends:
> ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-3 standard fonts for X
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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