xpra: PDFs appear very tiny in evince under xpra at 100% zoom

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Copied from ​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709008

Package: xpra
Version: 0.9.2+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Steps to reproduce:

• evince ​http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/maint-guide.en.pdf
• Select "100%" from the zoom widget of the toolbar

Expected results:

• text is readable

Actual results:

• text is way too tiny to be read.

This does not occur without xpra so I guess it is doing something that
confuses evince about the size of the screen. Please reassign to
evince if you believe that the bug is not in xpra.

This did not occur with xpra 0.3.4+dfsg-1

This does not seem to occur if I use

xpra start --no-daemon --xvfb 'Xvfb +extension Composite -screen 0 3840x2560x24+32 -nolisten tcp -noreset  -auth $XAUTHORITY' :14

so maybe this is somehow related to Xdummy?

"man xpra" still claims that the default value of --xvfb would be

'Xvfb +extension Composite -screen 0 3840x2560x24+32 -nolisten tcp -noreset  -auth $XAUTHORITY'

but this is apparently not the case anymore?

-- System Information:

Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xpra depends on:
ii  libavcodec53              6:0.8.6-1
ii  libc6                     2.17-2
ii  libswscale2               6:0.8.6-1
ii  libvpx1                   1.1.0-1
ii  libwebp2                  0.1.3-3+nmu1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libx264-123               2:0.123.2189+git35cf912-1
ii  python                    2.7.3-5
ii  python-gtk2               2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-wimpiggy           0.9.2+dfsg-1
ii  x11-xserver-utils         7.7~3
ii  xserver-xorg-input-void   1:1.4.0-1+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-dummy  1:0.3.5-2+b1

Versions of packages xpra recommends:
ii  openssh-client  1:6.2p1-3
ii  python-imaging  1.1.7-4
ii  ssh-askpass     1:1.2.4.1-9

Versions of packages xpra suggests:
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad   0.10.23-7.1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good  0.10.31-3+nmu1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly  0.10.19-2+b2
pn  openssh-server              <none>
pn  pulseaudio                  <none>
pn  pulseaudio-utils            <none>
ii  python-dbus                 1.2.0-1
pn  python-gst0.10              <none>
pn  python-gtkglext1            <none>

-- no debconf information

[Antoine Martin]

Please see ticket:163#comment:19 and see if removing "-dpi 96" helps.

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Hmm, I didn't notice that you had commented on the bug since I did not get any email about it. I now tried verifying my email address again, let's hope that fixes it.

Anyways, if I use

xpra start --no-daemon \
   --xvfb '/usr/bin/Xorg -noreset -nolisten tcp +extension GLX \
       +extension RANDR +extension RENDER -logfile /home/lindi/.xpra/Xorg.:14.log \
      -config /etc/xpra/xorg.conf :14' \
   :14

then the document is readable but the menu and toolbar text is huge.

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Testing xpra.org bug tracker, please ignore this and sorry for the noise...

[migration script]

this ticket has been moved to: ​https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/347