As always, thanks for your help Antoine. I should have looked for DPI problems, but I dismissed it as an issue since icons looked fine while the fonts were screwy.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:22 PM Antoine Martin via shifter-users < [email protected]> wrote: > This tells us that the DPI settings are being applied from the mac and > the applications you launch only read these settings when they start. > (that's unfortunate, but most applications behave this way) > The server log file should have logged it, please include it. > Looking in the server log after connecting from the MacBook I find: 2017-02-08 09:32:54,078 setting keyboard layout to 'us' 2017-02-08 09:32:54,127 DPI set to 17 x 21 (wanted 72 x 72) 2017-02-08 09:32:54,127 you may experience scaling problems, such as huge or small fonts, etc 2017-02-08 09:32:54,127 to fix this issue, try the dpi switch, or use a patched Xorg dummy driver Is the Mac display a high DPI display? What resolution? (actual > specifications not Apple's marketing terms) What does the client see it > as? (client and server command line output will log it) > 2017-02-08 09:32:54,065 client root window size is 1440x900 with 1 display 2017-02-08 09:32:54,065 ddoole-ltm1.internal.salesforce.com (508x317 mm - DPI: 72x72) workarea: 1440x873 at 0x31 2017-02-08 09:32:54,065 monitor 1 2017-02-08 09:32:54,068 server virtual display now set to 1440x900 The output from the "Xpra.app/Contents/Helpers/NativeGUI_info" would be > useful too. > That give a fair bit of output. If you think a ticket is in order, I'll attach it there. > You can try changing the DPI manually, ie: add {{{--dpi=96}}} to the > client command line. > If that works, you can stick this setting in "~/.xpra/xpra.conf". > Forcing DPI to 96 did the trick. _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
