Guide font size problems

I have a GUI in guide and i am going crazy because of the font sizes.

How can it be, that the labels have exactly the same height, font size and units, and still looks different? Furthermore, why the look completly different on Xquartz and windows??

mac:

Xquartz:

I understand small differences, but this thing is huge! And why one word is displayed correct and the other one with excactly the same configurations is different?

Best,

Dawid

[Walter Roberson]

MATLAB hasn't been supported on Xquartz since... somewhere around R2011a. Which release are you using?

[Dawid Strzelczyk]

XQuartz 2.7.11, Matlab 2016b and 2020a

So there is no hope? I mean, it is just font size.

[Walter Roberson]

??? Are you running XQuartz on Mac in order to act as an X server to display MATLAB running remotely on a Linux server ???

[Dawid Strzelczyk]

Yes, I am working on a cloud, thats why i need Xquartz.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Font sizes for X servers (the systems actually doing the displaying are called server for X purposes) are, in some cases, dependent on your X preferences settings, using the ecosystem described at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources

For X purposes, fonts and style are not controlled by the X Client (the system generating the graphics); the fonts that are available are controlled by the X server (which would be your Mac in this case.)

(The client / server terminology for X has always been confusing.)

Conceptually, X Clients (i.e., MATLAB on the cloud) do not render graphics into bitmaps: they send graphics requests to the X Server (your Mac) including text requests, and your X Server is responsible for rendering into graphics.

Because of this, it can often turn out to be a lot easier to use VNC, or Remote Desktop, or rdesktop, or TeamViewer in order to view graphics that has been generated on the host running the computational program. However, especially in a cloud situation, the computational server might not have a graphics card to be able to render. (But that's the kind of place that software such as Mosaic steps in to do software rendering.)