[openbox] Openbox on multiple X screens?

Bjørn T Johansen btj at havleik.no
Sat Oct 19 03:11:43 EDT 2013


On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:09:27 +0200
Bjørn T Johansen <btj at havleik.no> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:15:57 -0400
> Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > 
> >   This seems to work and gives me what I want... It's only one problem left. The font on display :0.1 is not the same as on :0.0. The one on :0.0 looks
> >   ok and correct but the font on :0.1 looks small and tiny... Are there any
> >   more programs I need to start on display :0.1? Or anything else I am
> > 
> > Maybe a screen resolution problem? Check with
> > 
> > xdpyinfo -display :0.1 |grep resolution
> > 
> > If it's not right, I'm not sure how you fix it, used to be xorg.conf, now
> > maybe xrandr? Or just change it for xft by setting the Xft.dpi
> > resource. That only works for Xft applications, which I think is most of
> > them these days.
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> 
> Yes, I guess that's the reason...:
> 
> screen #0:
>   dimensions:    1920x1080 pixels (341x191 millimeters)
>   resolution:    143x144 dots per inch
> 
> 
> screen #1:
>   dimensions:    2560x1440 pixels (602x342 millimeters)
>   resolution:    108x107 dots per inch
> 
> 
> Guess there is not easy fix for this? If I set the same DPI for both screens, it will not look so good on either? Or can I set DPI to 96 (or some
> other value?) for both and it will still look good?
> 

Hmm... I see I already have this in my .Xresources file..:

Xft.dpi:        96


BTJ


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