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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