On 13/09/2018 21:28, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > 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. Not in its present form. There have been talks of merging proper randr support, but things have gone very quiet: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-June/058128.html randr 1.5 support would allow us to configure virtual monitors. Here's xpra's tracker ticket for this issue: https://xpra.org/trac/ticket/56
>> 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? Place one of those in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://xpra.org/repos/cosmic/xpra.list or: https://xpra.org/repos/cosmic/xpra-beta.list Cheers, Antoine >> If those packages work for you, please comment or close this ticket: >> https://xpra.org/trac/ticket/1959 > > Will do. > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
