What determines the default font size? I know that's a biggish
question. What I want to do is make one application appear roughly the
same on two X displays.
I have two machines:
1. My old display, a 17" MacBook running the old Apple-supplied X11
with 10.6.
2. My brand new 15" MacBook, delivered Monday, with XQuartz added.
(By the way, installing XQuartz was a breeze, and was all I needed
to get up and running. Kudos!)
Remote X clients appear much smaller on my old machine than the new
one. I used to use Emacs with a default font of 11 points. With the
new machine (logged into the same remote host), a 9-point font appears
about the same size.
Both displays report the same resolution:
$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
but of course "resolution" under X is a nebulous term, as is "font
size".
I would have thought I'd see the opposite: since the retina display has
more dots per inch, I thought if anything X11 images/fonts would appear
smaller on the smaller, higher-resolution display. But the facts don't
support the theory.
What can I do on my new machine to shrink things down a bit?
--jkl
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