Re: cygwinX xwin resolution

["Dr. Rob Higgins" <rob dot higgins at utoronto dot ca>]

Hello Jon,

Yes, most content in windows and be zoom'd and I've been able to work 
with it, but it's the window decorations and controls that are almost 
unreadable.

I had gone through the man pages and tried many things suggested in 
them. But I must be doing it wrong, or in the wrong place.

As another test, from my cygwin64 home directory, I used:

startxwin -- -dpi 500

Similar to the example given in
   http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/man1/startxwin.1.html

In the log I found:

[ XWin was started with the following command line:

[ /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -dpi 500 -auth 
/home/Higgins/.serverauth.10276

[ ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
[ winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 3200 h 1800
[ winInitializeScreenDefaults - native DPI x 240 y 240
[ [ 45339.640] (II) xorg.conf is not supported
[ [ 45339.640] (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html [ 
for more information
[ [ 45339.640] LoadPreferences: /home/Higgins/.XWinrc not found
[ [ 45339.640] LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc

Then again I tried:

startxwin -- -screen 0 3200x1800@1

and the log output is attached ..

Thank you

---rob---

On 2016-07-22 9:25 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 22/07/2016 05:23, Dr. Rob Higgins wrote:
> > I cannot find, after two days, any documentation on how and where to
> > specify resolution parameters. I must be barking up the wrong trees.
> >
> > My laptop under Windows has recommended resolution set at 3200 x 1800
> >
> > CygwinX X Windows are much to small, and barely readable.
>
> I guess this means that e.g. xterm font is too small, and so a 80x24
> character window is small?
>
> > Can anyone just tell me where to look, or what to specify?
>
> To answer the specific question, you can specify the a display
> resolution using the '-dpi' option.
>
> The "configuration" chapter of the user guide [1] points to "man XWin"
> [2], which in turn points to "man Xserver" [3] for general server
> options, including that one.
>
> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.html
> [2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/XWin.1.html
> [3] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html
>
> If changing that helps, I'd be very interested to know what the
> autodetected value for dpi is, which is reported in
> /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log

Attachment: XWin.0.log.txt
Description: Text document

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