Answer by Bass for Video resolution when capturing a full-screen recording...
This appears to be a known ffmpeg issue: Should retain pixel density metadata from HiDPI/Retina screen recordings.
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Video resolution when capturing a full-screen recording via ffmpeg on Mac OS X
I have a 15-inch 2017 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.13 (High Sierra): The default display supports screen resolutions up to 2880x1800, despite the maximum resolution selectable via the standard UI...
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Why doesn't xterm support double-sized characters when using Xft fonts?
Whenever I configure xterm to use core X11 fonts: *.vt100.renderFont: False *.vt100.locale: False *.vt100.font: -monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-koi8-r it renders double-sized...
View ArticleChanging GIMP 2 installation folder on Windows
I've just installed GIMP 2.8.16 on Windows XP (32-bit). The installer prompted me for everything -- which components to install, file associations, etc. -- except for the installation folder (which it...
View ArticleComment by Bass on Using Process Monitor, how do I trace a process and its...
Thanks, your response is really good, but if we’re talking about the existing (long-running) children, the same can be accomplished from within procmon.exe via the Process Tree action (Ctrl+T). From...
View ArticleUsing Process Monitor, how do I trace a process and its children?
Using SysInternals Process Monitor (procmon.exe or procmon64.exe), how do I trace a process with a given PID and its child processes?My first (naïve) idea was to include both "PID is 1234" and "Parent...
View ArticleComment by Bass on Different line spacing depending on font encoding
Thank you — I’m aware of the scaleHeight resource. It works... to an extent, w/o providing the perfect picture I used to have in earlier versions of X11. Basically, this is a regression in the core X...
View ArticleComment by Bass on How do I change the account in use for Hangouts (Chrome...
This should be the accepted answer.
View ArticleComment by Bass on An attempt to switch to a doublescan X11 modeline fails...
Thank you. My question was specifically about doublescan ModeLine's, since Configure crtc 0 failed is a rather generic error message which may be caused by a number of reasons. I've already received an...
View ArticleComment by Bass on An attempt to switch to a doublescan X11 modeline fails...
This question already has an answer at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/611581
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X Logical Font Description and HiDPI
The problem: X-server serves fonts at a fixed resolution of 100dpi, rather than the current window system resolution (xdpyinfo | grep -F resolution).A bit of theory. There are legacy server-side fonts...
View ArticleComment by Bass on How do I extract all the external links of a web page and...
Will work fine except when links contain spaces (will need to manually replace those with %20).
View ArticleComment by Bass on With Chromium-based browsers, how to force-open an HTTP...
@spikey_richie No. My question is about a particular browser engine that doesn't respect its users.
View ArticleComment by Bass on With Chromium-based browsers, how to force-open an HTTP...
@Ferrybig Sometimes the inegrity of the content served by a pure HTTP server can be verified by some other means (as is with Debian repositories). In this case, I need a generic HTTP client, and a...
View ArticleComment by Bass on Move WSL2 file system to another drive
You can configure the default user by editing the /etc/wsl.conf file within the guest VM, as this guide describes.
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