From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: big fonts after Xorg update
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:22:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910192222.34837.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hbihj1$5pn$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Monday 19 October 2009 22:18:39 Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> I'd still like to know what exactly changed and if 75 or 96 is the
> "correct" value. Nevertheless, I have Xorg server 1.6 running and it
> looks fine.
>
I'd like to know exactly what the "dpi" setting is.
One thing it isn't, is the "dots per inch" of the display device. Or if it is,
it gets ignored/misinterpretated/abused by enough apps out there to make no
sense based on what I see on-screen.
The more I look into this, the more convinced I become that it is little more
than a "scaling factor hint" that apps are free to ignore (and often do)
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-19 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-15 23:22 [gentoo-user] big fonts after Xorg update Thorsten Kampe
2009-10-15 23:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-19 20:18 ` Thorsten Kampe
2009-10-19 20:22 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-10-19 20:38 ` Paul Hartman
2009-10-19 20:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Thorsten Kampe
2009-10-19 21:54 ` Paul Hartman
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