[mythtv-users] GUI on remote frontend very slow (solved)

[Bruce Markey]

Dan Christensen wrote:
...
> I find it a little ironic that myth needs an incorrect dpi setting in
> order to get things the correct size.  The point of telling X your
> screen's dpi is so that applications can choose font sizes in a way
> that makes them show up the right size...  Is this a bug lurking
> somewhere, or a design decision I don't understand?

Bug in Qt. The GUI is scaled so the fonts need to have a size
based on a DPI relative to the default GUI. Last I recall, David
Engel had tried to use function that were supposed to set the
DPI for an application regardless of the X DPI. These just plain
didn't work as advertised :-(.

--  bjm