On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:52:03 +0700 Antoine Martin <anto...@nagafix.co.uk> wrote: > > I found the values in the log. Opening up applications leads to > > crazy display sizes, and I saw this: > > > > 2018-09-11 20:54:07,844 client @18.265 Xpra X11 server version > > 2.3.2-r19729 64-b it > > 2018-09-11 20:54:07,845 client @18.266 running on Linux Ubuntu > > 18.10 cosmic 2018-09-11 20:54:07,849 DPI set to 17 x 21 (wanted > > 72 x 72) 2018-09-11 20:54:07,849 you may experience scaling > > problems, such as huge or sm all fonts, etc > > 2018-09-11 20:54:07,849 to fix this issue, try the dpi switch, > > or use a patched Xorg dummy driver > Right, that's the simulated "hardware DPI" that some applications > use. Out of curiosity, which application misbehaved?
Emacs. It behaved very, very badly. > > Is there a chance of contributing these patches upstream? It would > > help. > > That's very very unlikely to be merged upstream. > The DPI patch is really hackish. Is a less hackish version possible that upstream would take? It would eliminate the maintenance issue with every release. > You can use ModulePath in xorg.conf: > ftp://www.x.org/pub/X11R7.7-RC1/doc/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.xhtml > > >> As the Ubuntu 18.10 release nears, we will start pushing packages > >> to the beta repository, this will include the patched dummy > >> driver. Until then, you will need to compile the driver yourself > >> or use another workaround. > I have started pushing packages to the xpra "cosmic" repositories, > including the patched dummy driver. Simply adding the repository and > updating should give you all you need. What's the correct line for my sources.list? > If those packages work for you, please comment or close this ticket: > https://xpra.org/trac/ticket/1959 Will do. -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
