[openbox] using openbox with HiDPi display

[ohnonot-github at posteo.de]

OK it seems you're confusing bitmap and scalable fonts and different font notations now.
If Emacs supports scalable you should use it (at least on hidpi).
So try the example given.
If droid isn't installed, install it, or use something else if you feel you're confident with the notation.
I repeat: misc fixed is NOT scalable!

@jimrees I'm pretty sure 20px is not a hard limit. Terminus goes larger and I never had problems with that.



On October 24, 2018 3:57:52 AM UTC, Ranjan Maitra <maitra at email.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thank you for your detailed response. Your explanations make sense.
>
>On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:59:36 -0400 Jim Rees <jim at rees.org> wrote:
>
>> X bitmap fonts are measured in pixels. If 10x20 is too small, use
>something
>> bigger. But 10x20 is the biggest fixed font in X, so you may be out
>of luck.
>> 
>> If it looks good in aNu, that means aNu is doing something
>non-standard,
>> like doubling the size of the font. You can't expect other
>applications to
>> do the same. That's why scalable fonts were invented. There may be
>some way
>> to scale bitmap fonts in emacs, but I don't know what it would be.
>Maybe
>> something like this?
>> 
>> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "fixed" :height 120)
>
>I tried this, but nothing seemed to change. So I looked around and
>found this with this response on the stackoverflow sites:
>
>https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/10438/how-to-set-the-default-font-size/10439#10439
>
>where I got from:
>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/242067/emacs-on-hidpi-screen-renders-unreadable-fonts-arch-linux#242155
>
>(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . FONT ))
>(set-face-attribute 'default t :font FONT )
>
>where FONT is a string naming the font you want, for example, "Droid
>Sans Mono-10".
>
>Also, apparently we should also set the default font using .Xresources
>and the Emacs daemon. An example of a line suitable for ~/.Xresources
>for setting the default font size is
>
>Emacs.default.attributeHeight: 94
>
>So, I was not sure what to put in with the FONT? Should it be Fixed
>10x20 or Fixed Regular 10 or something else. I tried the first two but
>nothing seemed to change so was wondering for some more help here. I do
>understand that this is not an openbox question but an emacs on HiDPI
>question. 
>
>Many thanks and best wishes,
>Ranjan
>
>> 
>> But my recommendation to you is that you use scalable fonts. They
>should
>> look better than bitmap fonts, not worse, especially on a hi-res
>display. If
>> they don't look perfectly sharp and clear on your hi-dpi display,
>it's
>> likely you've got something configured wrong. At one time I had to
>add
>> something like this to my ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf :
>> 
>>   <match target="font">
>>     <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
>>       <const>rgb</const>
>>     </edit>
>>     <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
>>       <bool>true</bool>
>>     </edit>
>>     <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
>>       <const>hintslight</const>
>>     </edit>
>>     <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
>>       <bool>true</bool>
>>     </edit>
>>     <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
>>       <const>lcddefault</const>
>>     </edit>
>>   </match>
>> 
>> In any case this isn't an openbox issue, and you may get better
>advice in an
>> emacs or fontconfig forum.
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