fonts too small on remote clients

[Harold L Hunt II]

Andrew,

You need to use the "-dpi 100" parameter for XWin.exe.  It is not enough 
to change the order of the fonts in the font path, you have to actually 
tell it to use the 100 dpi fonts by default.

I think this will work in your case, but I could be mistaken.

Harold

Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 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).
> 
> 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?
> 
> I'm not running xfs.  Here's the output of xset -q:
> 
> $ 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:
> 
> /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
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> Andrew.
>