Re: Bug#218919: Call for OOo user interface font size testers
> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:09, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > Yes, I agree it would be nice. But that belongs in the X
> > > department, not with us.
>
> Thanks for following up on that already.
>
> > > However, I do think we should try and put all this down in the
> > > README.Debian, because I'm sure that being able to display
> > > documents at 100% as true physical size is something that many
> > > people would like to do.
> >
> > Should this be filed as a minor/wishlist bug, to avoid being
> > forgotten?
>
> I've made changes to README.Debian in CVS. Do you think they are OK?
I think that there are some more things to mention:
- many [xgk]dm configurations (and also /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc for
*dm-less cases) in default Debian configurations do pass "-dpi 100"
option yo X server, overriding any autodetected DPI. That should be
removed for DisplaySize to work
- gnome's gconf does mess the autodetected DPI, by setting Xft.dpi to a
value entered in configuration dialog, 96 if none was entered. I don't
know what is the clean fix for this. Perhaps it should be fixed and gnome
side.
- From Juergen Kreileder <jk at blackdown.de>:
> Note that with most recent graphics cards and monitors XFree86 is able
> to get the monitor size (and thus the correct dpi value) through ddc.
>
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for display device DFP-0:
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1600x1200": 189.0 MHz, 87.5 kHz, 70.0 Hz
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1600 x 1200
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display dimensions: (410, 310) mm
> (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (99, 98)
>
> (That's with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but other XFree86 drivers
> have that support too.)
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