Re: XEmacs ignores system dpi settings

Alexander Taler writes: Short story: Based on the information you sent in another message, I second this recommendation. Get your Xft resolution (whose bright idea was that, Mr. Packard?!) and your X11 resolution in sync, and you will get consistent font-sizing behavior across modern and legacy apps. If you're still not 100% satisfied, we'll give you a full refund of the price you paid us. :-) Seriously, please do report how you like the result. Since it's an X11-level issue I don't know if there's anything we can do about it except document it (the alternative would be to dig into the Xft resources and use that to rescale font requests on the fly, which is a bad idea). Geoffrey Chaucer version: What's happening here is that the Xorg guys have basically stopped supporting legacy bitmap fonts. This isn't a problem in the West, where repertoires are small and font vendors understand the benefits and inevitability of open source. Both factors fail in Asian languages, so bitmap fonts have remained prevalent until recently, and there is even a recent thread on xemacs-beta where a couple of people (Julian Bradfield and Olivier Galibert) complain about this problem while proclaiming the glories of their favorite -misc-fixed-* fonts. :-) In general, I think Emacs users probably tend to be happier with highly readable, slightly klunky fonts than the average user. Anyway, if you switch to an Xft-enabled XEmacs for 21.5, the "problem" will probably fix itself because XEmacs/Xft will respect the Xft.dpi setting. If it doesn't, that's a bug and I hope you will report it. For 21.4 which only supports legacy fonts (there is an Xft patch for it but you'll have to dig, and it will not be supported by the XEmacs Project), you have to fix the information provided by xdpyinfo, which is the information that the X library (and/or X font server) uses to compute the appropriate font to return for "12 point". The fact that Xorg.log.0 contains correct monitor dimensions but xpyinfo returns something different I don't understand. Older monitors were unable to communicate their dimensions, so I have been in the habit of setting resolution by hand with "X -dpi ..." etc ("xrandr -fbmm ..." will work too if you have RANDR enabled in your X server). But I'm surprised that recent X.org still doesn't get that right somehow. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta