On Ma, 28 dec 10, 09:13:00, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > I don't know how exactly it is done, but Linux takes into account > the actual size of the display (which is reported along its > supported resolutions) and not only the resolution to determine font > sizes (and maybe icon sizes or other dimensions of the visual UI, > but I have not experimented with that). So you get reasonably easy > to read (for people with good eyesight, at least) fonts at all > displays, at all resolutions. Under WinXP, if you use a high > resolution, you get tiny fonts. Am I the only one experiencing this? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 (Summary: Xorg forces 96 DPI and it is impossible to change it) Ok, it doesn't happen with the non-free nvidia driver (and possibly also not with fglrx), but I expected a lot more people to use free drivers here. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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