fonts too small on remote clients

[Thomas Chadwick]

Have you tried loading your .Xdefaults on the remote side before launching a 
client?  e.g. "xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults"

>From: Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: fonts too small on remote clients
>Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:20:36 -0500
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>I'm running Cygwin/XFree 4.3.0 under cygwin 1.5.5-1 (all the latest
>current versions of all packages as of this writing).  I'm tunneling X
>over ssh to clients on a remote host (running Linux w/ XFree86 4.3).
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>Whenever I start a client on the remote host, all of the fonts on my
>local display come out about 2 points too small.  It makes the clients
>very hard to see.  Local clients are displayed normally.  Does anyone
>know what could cause this?
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>I'm not running xfs.  Here's the output of xset -q:
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>$ xset -q
>Keyboard Control:
>   auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000002
>   auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
>   auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
>                         fadfffffffdffdff
>                         ffffffffffffffff
>                         ffffffffffffffff
>   bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
>Pointer Control:
>   acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
>Screen Saver:
>   prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
>   timeout:  600    cycle:  600
>Colors:
>   default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  16777215
>Font Path:
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>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X1
>1/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
>Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
>Font cache:
>   hi-mark (KB): 5120  low-mark (KB): 3840  balance (%): 70
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>I've tried putting the 100dpi fonts first on the font path (xset +fp
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/), but it doesn't help.
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>Any help appreciated.
>Andrew.
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