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

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

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+

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

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,

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

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