On 19/01/2010 14:45, Alexandre Beaugy wrote:
For many years now, I used to set my screen pixel density to 90 pixels per
inch, instead of the default 75 ppi, in the "startxwin.bat" file. My
"startxwin.bat" used to be executed, then, at windows startup, to get a
full functional Cygwin-X environment (at 90 ppi, by the way). Here is the
commandline I did put in my "startxwin.bat" file:
[...] run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 90 [...] ^^^^^^^^
Then, I recently upgraded my Cygwin-X installation from 1.5.x to 1.7.x, and
now the "startxwin.bat" script disappeared, "replaced" by the
"startxwin.exe" binary. That did not trouble me much. Nevertheless, I'm not
able to set my screen pixel density anymore, or at least, I did not found
the way (config file, commandline argument, ...) to set it again.
I tried, as target of "XWin Server" shortcut: `run C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe
/usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -dpi 90' ^^^^^^^^^^^ In
order "to specify particular server options, append a double dash (−−) to
the startxwin command line (after any client and arguments) followed by the
desired server options.", as it is said in the `man 1 startxwin'.
Nevertheless, my option seems not to reach the server arguments, because,
the screen pixel density of my Cygwin-X session remains stuck to 75ppi (as
`xdpyinfo' reports).
You really deserved to succeed after paying such good attention to the
man-pages.
I think you will find that setting the shortcut to 'run C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe
/usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -dpi 90"' should succeed in
passing the dpi option down to startxwin. Note that the quotes around the
entire command after bash's -c option, which are needed, otherwise bash will
interpret the '-- -dpi 90' as options for itself.
I think perhaps we should arrange for the shortcut to be created with these
quotation marks in place to make it a bit more obvious where to add extra options.
I also heard about a file called "~/.xserverrc" to alter the way the
Xserver is launched. But I did not found anything detailed about its
content and how it shall be addressed.
.xserverrc is discussed in the xinit manpage, and while you could achieve the
same ends using that, I wouldn't recommend it, as this will also affect X
servers started via startx or xinit.
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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