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

[Robert Dinse]

      For what its' worth, xrandr is broken if you have xcinerama enabled, at
least with the Nvidia drivers.

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On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Milan Kníek wrote:

> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:27:26 +0200
> From: "Milan [UTF-8] Kníek" <knizek.confy at gmail.com>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
> Cc: 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
> 
> Robert Dinse píÿÿe 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.
>
> Milan
>