On 28 February 2011 16:52, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I don't know about 'now'... just did a brief test on a variety of machines >> here running both older and newer OSes, and it defaults to 96dpi on all of >> them (and all of them have EDIDs with geometry.) > > Hmm. I'm sure it used to use auto-detect. The lack of a setting for it > is still a bugbear for me, but not really a serious one - I acknowledge > that the number of people who are going to know that they ought to set > the DPI, and know what to set it to, is small, and most such people can > do it with dconf anyway. > > (I still think we should consider using auto-detected DPI by default, > though. Laptops are increasingly coming with displays featuring > significantly higher than 96dpi resolution; I'm wondering when the first > 2k LCDs will hit.) I think the X driver sets that value. Here on my laptop it just always does this: [ 26.302] (==) intel(0): DPI set to (96, 96) Regardless if I have my external display connected as well as the laptop's LCD or not. Rui -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
