On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:34 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:15 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote: > > Thanks greatly, Owen! This fills an immediate need. > > > > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:04 -0500, Owen Williams wrote: > > > Classic Mode is a bundle that embeds a Xephyr session in an activity. > > > It's very useful for running non-sugarized programs. > > > > > > It was originally written by Dan Williams, and I've brought it up to > > > date with a proper icon and the newer activity API. It only works on > > > the devel builds (at the moment), but it includes the Xephyr runtime so > > > it doesn't need to be installed by yum. Eventually I'll bundle xterm > > > and twm with it and make a non-devel-build friendly version. > > > > We can/should do better than twm these days: Puppylinux uses jwm, as an > > example. > > > > Among other things, I'd like to not have dependencies on Xaw and Xt, Xmu > > and the like in anything that may commonly be used. > > One problem I always had with this was the font sizes are really, really > small in everything. I don't know if that's actually "correct" because > our DPI is so high, or if something in the X -> Xephyr -> app pipeline > is incorrectly interpreting the DPI. But making the apps actually > readable would be a good thing to do.
Prolly Xephyr default to 96 as dpi. You can just call it with the -dpi option, passing the right dpi. We are doing it for the sugar emulator... Marco _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
