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Re: KDE3.2.1 X resolution [FIXED]



On Saturday 27 March 2004 10:58 am, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
> On Saturday 27 March 2004 17:58, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> >     You have two options: (1) restore "-dpi 100" in Xservers, so that
> >     you'll have the same as you had before upgrading [note that you'll
> >     have to change back your KDE fonts]; (2) stay in 75, 75 (which is
> >     what XFree detects is appropiate for your card, I think/it seems)
> >     and change/tweak *once* the font-size for GTK apps, just as you did
> >     in KDE.
>
> I did some research and evidence suggested that XFree86 should be able to
> calculate the resolution automatically, given the correct info.
>
> It obviously wasn't able to pull the LCD display for this info via the
> mechanism described in the manual.
>
> So I took a ruler and manually measured the physical size of the LCD diplay
> in millimeters and entered it into the monitor section of XF86Config-4
> using the DisplaySize option.
>
> This worked. XFree86 now correctly finds the dpi to be 96x96 dpi.
>
> Thanks for the hints.
>
> Anders

That's what I did.  In fact, using DisplaySize is the most Correct (TM) way to 
do it, since it gives you the true dpi of your monitor, and if you change 
your resolution, X will still get the true new dpi of your monitor.

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