Re: Why does kdm still set dpi to 100?

To: Frank Murphy <murphyf+deb-ppc@f-m.fm>
Cc: debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Why does kdm still set dpi to 100?
From: Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:15:36 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 200401172105.17455.murphyf+deb-ppc@f-m.fm> (Frank Murphy's message of "Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:05:17 +0100")
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Frank Murphy writes:

> I recently noticed that kdm for Debian sets the Xserver dpi to 100
> with its -dpi 100 switch. I know that all the old de-uglification
> docs recommended this to deal with Netscape's handling of bitmap
> fonts on X. But now that X has better support for truetype fonts
> (plus the free Bitstream Vera fonts), should this be removed? Anyone
> who still wants it could exit the /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers file, or
> better yet, the XF86Config file.

Any reason why we wouldn't want to have it ?

cheers
domi

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