[sugar] X fonts, and Cairo fonts

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpg at redhat.com
Wed Mar 14 13:51:17 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:43 +0000, Matthew Allum wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 12:10 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > 
> > Xephyr is configured to whatever DPI your screen is. Simulate the OLPC
> > screen exactly is not viable at the moment, because Xephyr cannot scale
> > down the screen image. And anyway it seem sane to try and be resolution
> > independent (both dpi and actual screen size/ratio).
> > 
> 
> You can force Xephyr not to copy the hosts DPI by passing it the -dpi
> switch. Until I get a chance to implement scaling (which Im not totally
> convinced will work all that well at least for much higher DPI's) you
> can use this switch and sit a few extra feet back from you monitor :/

The problem with that is that it doesn't work for screen with a
resolution smaller than the laptop... i.e. it doesn't work on 1024x768

Marco



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