From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pankaj Jangid Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PGTK-related misconceptions Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:14:09 +0530 Message-ID: <87v8v11xli.fsf@codeisgreat.org> References: <87lew7qdtj.fsf@yahoo.com> <877d7lmmz9.fsf@gmail.com> <8999b324ff34f311f829644947337beb@webmail.orcon.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18359"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:stKO1WXfMG4D9XNU3FbpymFWfxY= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 22 07:46:49 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nhm81-0004aC-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:46:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59636 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nhm7z-0002yw-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2022 01:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41682) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nhm5d-0001wP-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2022 01:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:33420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nhm5b-00062m-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2022 01:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nhm5Z-0001fc-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:44:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:288788 Archived-At: Yuri Khan writes: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 18:54, Phil Sainty wrote: > >> I believe there's something called "X-Wayland" for running X programs >> under Wayland, in case that's the missing piece of the puzzle? >> >> IIUC you can use that to run the same (single) X build of emacs when >> you're using Wayland that you use when you're not, which avoids the >> problem you've described. > > If you have a HiDPI monitor, an X application on an X server gets full > resolution, a Wayland application on a Wayland compositor gets full > resolution, but an X application via Xwayland on a Wayland compositor > gets rendered at low resolution and then upscaled. It¡¯s a non-starter. Yup. I had a very hard time without-pgtk on a HiDPI monitor. Tried all sorts of scaling and font-sizing. Nothing worked. I am using xwayland. Because that is now default in Debian desktop environment (Gnome). So I started using PGTK build. And for my use-case, I have not faced any issues till now. It has been two months. Fonts look awesome.