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

[Robert Dinse]

      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.

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On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Milan Kníek wrote:

> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:34:54 +0200
> From: "Milan [UTF-8] Kníek" <knizek.confy at gmail.com>
> To: Simon Baev <simonbaev at gmail.com>, x2go-user <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] x2goserver on Ubuntu Mate 15.04 with 4k monitor and
>     high font-rendering DPI
> 
> Simon Baev píÿÿe v ÿÿt 21. 05. 2015 v 14:22 -0400:
>> I saw this setting but for some reason it didn't affect anything when
>> I changed it to 96. Could it be caused by the fact that ongoing (not
>> logged out) session was active on the server (physical console) while
>> I was trying to remotely connect to it via X2Go?
>>
>> The only way I found to connect to that server with reasonable DPI
>> was to create a separate user that runs default settings, but that
>> doesn't seem to be a good fix.
>>
> I switched recently from KDE 4 to MATE (Arch Linux) and can see the
> same behaviour with MATE: x2goserver/nxagent ignores the dpi settings
> set in x2goclient.
>
> I had not had time to investigate this further and for now worked
> around that by placing two launchers on my desktop and running them
> manually in the current session:
>
> For local sessions:
> gsettings set org.mate.font-rendering dpi 107
>
> For x2go sessions:
> gsettings set org.mate.font-rendering dpi 96
>
> It works on the fly, only some apps (skype) need to be closed and
> restarted.
>
> I believe one could use .config/autostart/ and some script with tests
> of the environment to set the proper DPI during log-in phase. This
> would resolve the issue with uncleanly terminated sessions. Perhaps it
> may not work for published apps.
>
> I hope to look at the issue later (well, just a cheap promise...)
>
> Milan
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