Bug#238770: In /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers no -dpi Option is set

[Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de>]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 17:55, Erik Moeller wrote:
> I experienced the same problem again after updating to KDE 3.4 on
> testing. It turned out that a change in the syntax of the kdmrc file was
> the cause: /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc now directly specifies the X server
> parameters, rather than using the Xservers file to look them up. The
> default there is, again, to use no dpi setting (which I find problematic
> since figuring out the correct DisplaySize setting in xorg.conf is much
> harder for a newbie). Changing ServerArgsLocal to

Well, do you think figuring out the correct dpi value for ServerArgsLocal is
easier for a newbie than adding 

	DisplaySize     284 213  # width and height in mm of the display

to the Monitor section?  And anyone asking what I mean with 'correct dpi'
value has already proven that I'm right ;)

Note: Both DisplaySize or -dpi settings is only necessary if the gfx
driver and monitor can't exchange the DisplaySize information automaticly.
[Works here already in correctly in 2/3 of the used hardware .  Hopefully
more with next xorg release.
> 
> ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -dpi 100

That's is almost always wrong ;)  Are you sure that your monitor has
100 dpi?

If your fonts are too small _and_ dpi is right.  the right thing is to
use bigger fonts that to fake dpi value.  Remember dpi == dot per inch
and what an inch and a dot is, is well defined.  I really prefer that
A4 or letter printout have exactly the same size as the paper.
> 
> solved the problem for me.

It's wrong.  DisplaySize is the right thing (tm).

I vote for wontfix

Achim
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Erik
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