Re: Low resolution with XQuartz on retina display (and other questions)
Re: Low resolution with XQuartz on retina display (and other questions)
- Subject: Re: Low resolution with XQuartz on retina display (and other questions)
- From: René J.V. Bertin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 23:35:08 +0200
On Monday October 10 2016 23:48:40 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> > X11 and in XQuartz. With the new macbookpro, the resolution is
> > normally 2880x1800 but in XQuartz it's only 1440x900. Any idea
> > why that might be? Can it be made to use the full resolution (or
> > at least 1680x1050)? Or is that just wthe way it is with retina
> > displays?
>
> It should be possible to add better support for retina if anyone wants to spend time on it, but not much work has been going into XQuartz for the past five years or so.
Why is it then that XQuartz 2.7.8 on OS X 10.9 uses the correct (true) pixel resolutions for my 2 non-retina screens?
Could xrandr be used to get XQuartz to use the full resolution on a Retina screen, or is it going to be necessary to hack the code?
> > 3) Also, when XQuartz starts (after entering full-screen mode),
> > the keyboard focus doesn't start to follow the mouse until after
> Also the first I've heard of that one... this is likely an issue in quartz-wm rather than XQuartz. The source for that is at https://github.com/XQuartz/quartz-wm.
Except the OP is using TWM ;)
R.
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