[openbox] Openbox on multiple X screens?

Mathias Dufresne mathias.dufresne at gmail.com
Sat Oct 19 04:12:37 EDT 2013


Hi all,

I use kdm to launch X server so in my own case it is in kdmrc I have to add
-dpi 100 for X server command line.

I expect you have to find how is started your X server too and add the same
option.

Cheers,

mathias


2013/10/19 Bjørn T Johansen <btj at havleik.no>

> 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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