-dpi option of Xephyr
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu Mar 5 23:56:43 UTC 2020
On 3/5/20 6:14 AM, Sagar Tiwari wrote:
> What does the `-dpi` option of `Xephyr` do. I'm trying different values like this:
>
> Xephyr -dpi 20 -screen 640x480 :1
>
> and the programs running in the session don't look different in any way.
It changes the static global resolution size reported by xdpyinfo - for
instance, with the above, xdpyinfo says:
screen #0:
dimensions: 640x480 pixels (813x610 millimeters)
resolution: 20x20 dots per inch
but with -dpi 96 it says:
screen #0:
dimensions: 640x480 pixels (169x127 millimeters)
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
It doesn't change the way X draws anything - some applications may choose to
use it to adjust the size they scale images or text to, or they may ignore it.
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