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Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X



Lei Kong wrote:
 
> 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.

Is DisplaySize the only thing you did?
 
> No way to let the machine detect the correct DPI
> automatically? guess that requires the display
> dimension be stored in the hardware.

When everything works the way it's supposed to, X does correctly
determine DPI. Working as it should simply doesn't happen often enough.
It requires properly functioning DDC, which older displays don't have or
don't have correctly implemented; and which many (most?) modern flat
panel displays don't have correctly implemented, since it isn't required
for acceptable windoze operation.
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