Re: DPI, font size, and Debian

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:19:25PM -0600, Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net> wrote:
>   The GNOME system has the nice property that it can be changed without
> restarting X.  Moving towards systems with this property is a good
> thing.  GNOME also advertises it in a vendor neutral way (XSETTINGS) and
> sets the Xft X resource so that other applications use its DPI value, so
> it seems like it is going in the right direction.
> 
>   Regardless, my proposal is simply to have Xft always default to 96
> DPI, independent of the DPI value you put in X.

Are you telling me you are wanting to force all my Xft applications to
use a 96 dpi display while I explicitly configured X to use 112 dpi ?
I firmly oppose to that.

Mike