On April 21, 2005 09:00, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > as I am experimenting with Kolab using a few newly created users I find > that these new font defaults are really rather small on my IBM ThinkPad > T23 with 14 inch display. > > This is what xdpyinfo gives me: > > version number: 11.0 > vendor string: The X.Org Foundation > vendor release number: 60802000 > X.Org version: 6.8.2 > > screen #0: > print screen: no > dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (347x260 millimeters) > resolution: 75x75 dots per inch > > This is not quite correct however: I measure about 285 x 215 > millimeters. > > So probably I should set an DisplaySize option again in my X config. > > Well I did not follow the new font default discussion. So this is just my > feedback. Thanks for the feedback, from you and everyone else who has commented. I'm still pondering the changes I made. I believe that if the X server is fixed to fall back to a more sensible value than 75 dpi, then the problem would largely go away, since few people actually run their monitor at a resolution that yields such a dpi. For instance, your 14" monitor at 1024x768 has a real dpi of about 92. If auto-detection doesn't work for you, but X fell back to 96 dpi or 100 dpi, your font sizes would be fine. I've brought the matter to the attention of the X maintainers [1], but haven't received any response as of yet. Rest assured, though, that I will continue to evaluate the situation - post-Sarge, the issue may be fixed, and recall that the Alioth packages, though available now, are really aimed at the post-Sarge world. Cheers, Christopher Martin [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2005/04/msg00224.html
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