Re: Xft dpi font scaling

Ar an cúigiú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh René Rebe: >>> Googling around suggest others alternative forms which either do >>> not work in xemacs-beta, or do not prove the situation. >>> >>> I tried to read the lisp files, but could not find anything that >>> would help me there either. >>> >>> Is there anything "pt" like so that a 13pt would result in say 13 >>> pixels on a low resolution display, and 26 (or whatever) pixels on >>> a HiDPI screen with the X server dpi set accordingly? >>> >>> PS: Surprisingly the Xemacs menus and such sale automatically, just >>> not this most important, main edit buffer, ..? >> >> ... except this suggests it does!? >> >> Xft isn’t my bailiwick, and I don’t have a high-DPI screen available to >> reproduce ± debug this issue. Stephen? > > With an xserver, you could just run "xrandr --dpi 192" or so to > "simulate" a "HiDPI" screen, ... Ah, thanks for that. My Apple XQuartz 2.3.6 xorg-server 1.4.2-apple56 doesn’t support the XRANDR extension, so it would likely be a question of a virtual machine for me. I don’t use the Xft support and have made the decision to favour the GTK support for my gui work.