[Spice-devel] Blurry spice-widget

Marc-André Lureau mlureau at redhat.com
Wed Dec 21 16:08:39 UTC 2016


Hi

----- Original Message -----
> Hi David,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 1:37 PM, David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com> wrote:
> > You're actually on 294 dpi screen :)
> 
> Yea, sure, but in terms of standard DPIs, this screen is "2x", so
> 96*2=192. Not really important for this discussion though.
> 
> > This is actually good RFE that can work for different cases both by
> > extending the normal-DPI guest screen (for older guest systems or apps
> > that don't need good grahpics - to save bandwidth) or by conveying the
> > actual DPI to the guest to make all your screen real-estate usable.
> 
> Indeed -- the idea I guess would be a menu item called:
> 
> [X] Scale guest to host screen scale factor
> 
> When checked, the behavior would be as it is now. When unchecked, it
> would be what's needed to make Windows usable.
> 
> Seem okay?

Can we avoid tweaking?

I would simply send the client dpi or scale factor as part of monitor config.

You can use display scaling with virt-viewer (or other spice-gtk clients) if required.



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