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Re: Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X



Thanks for the hint, now things looks all right now.
My laptop screen is 14in 5:3 wide screen, guess that's
why things got screwed up. Now I set the display size
explicitly in xorg.conf, I am running debian testing.

No way to let the machine detect the correct DPI
automatically? guess that requires the display
dimension be stored in the hardware.

Lei

-dpi 100 in Xservers is purely arbitrary, intended for the old xfs
system, not for moderm fontconfig apps. You may find elsewhere if you
look around with grep in /etc, e.g. in kdmrc, another instance(s) of an
arbitrary -dpi.

I don't have hardware that supports UseEdidDpi, and so can't test
myself, but I suggest unless you can find out that it's buggy that you
allow it to do its job, and adjust elsewhere to get the sizes you
prefer. If your desktop is set to 10pt, the size really should be 10pt,
and not some artificially shrunken size purporting to be 10pt. If you
don't like 10pt, choose something else in your font size chooser. If
UseEdidDpi on your system is broken, I suggest you try DisplaySize or
Xft.dpi rather than -dpi to force to your preference, or if you're using
Gnome, use its control center. If you are using Gnome, start by checking
in its control center to see if that's where the 75 is coming from when
you disable UseEdidDpi.

The log says 111x111. Is that correct, or nearly so? To see whether 111
or 75 is more nearly correct, look at
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/dpi.html . For web browsers, it's better
to err on the high side if possible, but the idea is for an inch wide
image on http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/dpi-screen-window.html to display
at least an inch wide. Only after DPI is reasonably set should font size
adjustments elsewhere be made. It isn't just fonts that depend on a
proper DPI setting.
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