Set Virtual Me2Me desktop's initial DPI to 96

remoting/tools/me2me_virtual_host.py

 #!/usr/bin/python
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # Virtual Me2Me implementation.  This script runs and manages the processes
 # required for a Virtual Me2Me desktop, which are: X server, X desktop
 # session, and Host process.
 # This script is intended to run continuously as a background daemon
 # process, running under an ordinary (non-root) user account.
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     if retcode != 0:
       logging.error("Failed to set XKB to 'evdev'")
 
     # Register the screen sizes if the X server's RANDR extension supports it.
     # Errors here are non-fatal; the X server will continue to run with the
     # dimensions from the "-screen" option.
     for width, height in self.sizes:
       label = "%dx%d" % (width, height)
       args = ["xrandr", "--newmode", label, "0", str(width), "0", "0", "0",
               str(height), "0", "0", "0"]
-      proc = subprocess.Popen(args, env=self.child_env, stdout=devnull,
-                              stderr=devnull)
-      proc.wait()
+      subprocess.call(args, env=self.child_env, stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)
       args = ["xrandr", "--addmode", "screen", label]
-      proc = subprocess.Popen(args, env=self.child_env, stdout=devnull,
-                              stderr=devnull)
-      proc.wait()
+      subprocess.call(args, env=self.child_env, stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)
 
     # Set the initial mode to the first size specified, otherwise the X server
     # would default to (max_width, max_height), which might not even be in the
     # list.
     label = "%dx%d" % self.sizes[0]
     args = ["xrandr", "-s", label]
-    proc = subprocess.Popen(args, env=self.child_env, stdout=devnull,
-                            stderr=devnull)
-    proc.wait()
+    subprocess.call(args, env=self.child_env, stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)
+
+    # Set the physical size of the display so that the initial mode is running
+    # at approximately 96 DPI, since some desktops require the DPI to be set to
+    # something realistic.
+    args = ["xrandr", "--dpi", "96"]
+    subprocess.call(args, env=self.child_env, stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)
 
     devnull.close()
 
   def _launch_x_session(self):
     # Start desktop session
     # The /dev/null input redirection is necessary to prevent the X session
     # reading from stdin.  If this code runs as a shell background job in a
     # terminal, any reading from stdin causes the job to be suspended.
     # Daemonization would solve this problem by separating the process from the
     # controlling terminal.
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         host_config.clear_auth()
         host_config.clear_host_info()
         host_config.save()
         return 0
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
   logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
                       format="%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(message)s")
   sys.exit(main())