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[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#789273: Bug#789273: lightdm-gtk-greeter: add an option to scale the display



On 2015-06-29 17:58:47 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On lun., 2015-06-29 at 17:57 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2015-06-19 23:33:34 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > On ven., 2015-06-19 at 14:50 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > There should be an option to scale the display. One can currently
> > > > scale the fonts, for instance by setting xft-dpi=235, but the 
> > > > icons
> > > > remain small on a high-resolution screen.
> > > 
> > > Then just have Xorg use the correct resolution for your screen, 
> > > maybe?
> > 
> > This is not a solution. If I understand correctly, the Xorg 
> > resolution
> > must be 96 DPI under Linux:
> > 
> >   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705
> 
> Well, then you have the kind of issue you're experiencing. You could
> report your problems to that bug, then.

They don't want any more comment. The documentation is not clear,
but RandR should be used:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790542#10

So, this is what lightdm-gtk-greeter should do, possibly in an
optional way.

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