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Re: DPI, font size, and Debian



On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 20:44 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:23:48AM +0000, Anders Karlsson <anders@trudheim.com> wrote:
> > Well, yes and no. If you are a normal user, you would not have to tweak
> > anything. If you mess with printing/image manipulating a lot, then you
> > might have to tweak two sets of values, one to tell X what DPI the
> > screen actually is, and one to tell the desktop env what DPI you want
> > the fonts displayed in.
> 
> I still fail to see the advantage of having 2 settings of the same
> thing, being the number of dots per inch.

Golden middle way then, if the X DPI is specified manually in the
XF86Config, the Xft.dpi gets set to what X DPI is set to. If X is
guessing the DPI, Xft.dpi gets defaulted to 96 dpi?

-- 
Anders Karlsson <anders@trudheim.com>
Trudheim Technology Limited

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