Re: (getting correct DPI from windows for) cygwinX xwin resolution

2016-07-30 Thread Linda Walsh
Eliot Moss wrote: As I mentioned, it is clear the XWin itself has a notion of resolution, but most applications do not seem to be coded to take it into account. The main ones that I use don't, anyway, and so I needed to adjust things in my .Xdefaults, as I described and gave examples of in my pre

Re: cygwinX xwin resolution

2016-07-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/22/2016 6:19 PM, Dr. Rob Higgins wrote: Ahhh ... a totally separate platform has the same issue on this hi-res small screen. This laptop is new and Band-In-A-Box needs Windows or Mac, so I'm testing Win 10 with cygwin X to get some of the stuff I'm used to in Linux. When testing Freeplane

Re: cygwinX xwin resolution

2016-07-22 Thread Dr. Rob Higgins
Ahhh ... a totally separate platform has the same issue on this hi-res small screen. This laptop is new and Band-In-A-Box needs Windows or Mac, so I'm testing Win 10 with cygwin X to get some of the stuff I'm used to in Linux. When testing Freeplane with Java 8 (in the Win 10 environment) and

Re: cygwinX xwin resolution

2016-07-22 Thread bzs
Maybe someone suggested this but your major problem may be that you need to modify your font path to use higher res fonts, see xset(1) but I use something like (cut+paste, dejavu and misc are irrelevant but for pedagological sake): xset fp+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/,

Re: cygwinX xwin resolution

2016-07-22 Thread Dr. Rob Higgins
Hello Jon, Yes, most content in windows and be zoom'd and I've been able to work with it, but it's the window decorations and controls that are almost unreadable. I had gone through the man pages and tried many things suggested in them. But I must be doing it wrong, or in the wrong place.

Re: cygwinX xwin resolution

2016-07-22 Thread Eliot Moss
Having now seen Jon's message ... Yes, my XWin log shows a dpi of 192, which is 7576 / 39.37 (inches per meter), rounded. As I mentioned, it is clear the XWin itself has a notion of resolution, but most applications do not seem to be coded to take it into account. The main ones that I use don't,

Re: cygwinX xwin resolution

2016-07-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/22/2016 12:23 AM, 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

Re: cygwinX xwin resolution

2016-07-22 Thread Jon Turney
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 ba

cygwinX xwin resolution

2016-07-21 Thread Dr. Rob Higgins
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. Can anyone just tell me wher