[Bugs] #871 UNSP: Current sugar-jhbuild UI fails to adjust to dpi other than for fonts

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#871: Current sugar-jhbuild UI fails to adjust to dpi other than for fonts
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    Reporter:  garycmartin                |          Owner:  tomeu                      
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  assigned                   
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Git as of bugdate          
    Severity:  Minor                      |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |  
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Changes (by sascha_silbe):

 * cc: sascha_silbe (added)
  * owner:  sascha_silbe => tomeu
  * status:  new => assigned
  * component:  sugar-jhbuild => sugar


Comment:

 Reassigning to sugar as sugar-jhbuild doesn't do anything with X, sugar-
 emulator (part of sugar) does.
 I might be the one to blame (see #565), but sugar-jhbuild is not. :)

 Gary, can you please post the output of
 a) ps auxww|grep Xephyr
 b) xdpyinfo |grep resolution
 c) xrandr |head -n 2

 Please note that by running inside a hardware emulator you shield X from
 your (physical) monitor, so the default DPI cannot be correct. 133 DPI is
 rather high (what model is it?), 90..100 are usual for PC monitors, with
 75 and 100 being common default values.
 You don't have to patch sugar-emulator, BTW - that was the whole point of
 my patch. You can simply run "./sugar-jhbuild run sugar-emulator -dpi 133"
 now (and save that invocation either as a shell function or a shell
 script).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/871#comment:2>
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