[X2Go-User] x2goserver on Ubuntu Mate 15.04 with 4k monitor and high font-rendering DPI

[Stefan Baur]

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Am 26.06.2015 um 15:27 schrieb Milan Knížek:
> Robert Dinse píše v Pá 26. 06. 2015 v 05:32 -0700:
>>> In Mate, if you go into System->Preferences->Look and Feel 
>>> ->Appearance, then select the "Fonts" tab, in the lower right
>>> click on "Details", then in the upper left you can set the
>>> resolution to whatever DPI you want. This works with X2Go, NX
>>> protocol with Remmina, and pretty much everything else I've
>>> tried.
>>> 
> It surely does, because it is the same as the command: gsettings
> set org.mate.font-rendering dpi XX
> 
> Using GUI is great for a once-set-do-not-touch-anymore action, but
> when you need to change the DPI often...
> 
> Anyway, the aim is to use DPI settings as per x2go client setup.
> It seems that in MATE, once the user sets hiw own value, the DPI
> from xorg.conf is ignored (which sounds logical but does not fit
> the bill for our use). xrandr --dpi XX in the running x2go session
> also does not have any effect.

So basically, what you'd need for MATE is something that reads the
desired DPI value from an ENV var or from some file, then issues the
gsettings command you quoted above, and this would have to run on
every session startup and reconnect, right?

- -Stefan


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