[X2Go-User] Font size in a 'Single Application'

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Fri Oct 5 11:05:23 CEST 2018


On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 10:39:17AM +0200, Tristan Miller wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 22:26:46 +0100, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>
> wrote:
> > I have just installed x2go (server on my xubuntu 18.04 desktop, client
> > on my xubuntu 18.04 laptop).
> > 
> > I am using it to run Digikam as a 'Single Application'.  I must say it
> > was incredibly easy to set up and get working, congratulations to the
> > developers.
> > 
> > The text in Digikam is a bit too large, i tried increasing the DPI in
> > the session settings but that seemed to have no effect (or maybe it
> > made the text even bigger!).  So, is there a way to make the text
> > smaller?
> 
> That really should have worked -- at least, changing the DPI works well
> for me.  By how much did you change the DPI?  Maybe you should try a
> larger increment and see if it makes any difference.
> 
As I added later it turned out that I needed to *reduce* the DPI to
make the text smaller.  I think this may well be because I was using
'Single Application' rather than displaying the whole desktop.  It
does seem it would be worth mentioning in the documentation.

-- 
Chris Green


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