Re: DPI, font size, and Debian

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:52:57AM +0000, Anders Karlsson <anders@trudheim.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 16:20 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No, he said he wanted to make Xft applications default to 96 DPI.
> Nothing stopping you from tweaking the Xft.dpi value to what you want it
> to be.

Which means I'll have to tweak *2* configurations for *1* DPI. And
fortunately, I don't use several user accounts, otherwise that would be
even more configuration tweaks.

Mike