Re: DPI, font size, and Debian
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:58:30AM -0800, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
>
> Around 8 o'clock on Dec 6, Anders Karlsson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> So should Xft just default to 96dpi and let the Xft.dpi value override
> that? Right now, Xft defaults to the "real" display resolution, which I
> think we've come to see as almost always the wrong answer (at least as a
> default).
The problem lies in the Xserver not having the correct DPI set.
Let's not try to fix that by breaking the cases where the Xserver has
the actual DPI.
Mike
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