On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 4:04 PM, James K. Lowden <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I would have thought I'd see the opposite: since the retina display has
> more dots per inch, I thought if anything X11 images/fonts would appear
> smaller on the smaller, higher-resolution display. But the facts don't
> support the theory.
>
What you're seeing locally is font resolution doubling, which is something
of a special case for Retina specifically to avoid fonts becoming too small
just because the resolution allows it. But it sounds like either the remote
applications don't support it, or can't see it because they're remote.
For client-side fonts as used by most programs these days, it should be
possible to tweak fonts.conf on the remote machine to resize the fonts.
Check "man fonts.conf" on the remote to see where the per-user version of
this file is (on older systems it would be ~/.fonts.conf, on newer ones it
will be ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf or similar). The recipe you'd want
is something like
<match target="font">
<edit name="dpi" mode="assign"><int>192</int></edit>
</font>
...I think. It might instead be: <edit name="scale"
mode="assign"><double>2.0</double></edit> Play with it a bit. You might
also be able to find out more about resolution doubling workarounds in a
web search.
This won't help with server-side fonts, but because those are rendered
locally they should already deal with resolution doubling.
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brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates
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