On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 08:52 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 11:44 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Adam Williamson (awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/data/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings.gschema.xml.in.in#n13 > > > > and: > > > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/xsettings/gsd-xsettings-manager.c#n263 > > > > > > > > So if you didn't much about with the default configuration (or inherited > > > > it from a GNOME 2.x installation), we use the X server's DPI. > > > > > > ack. so it's X's decision to default to 96dpi now? Because that's > > > certainly what happens; I boot F15 on my P and I get almost literally > > > unreadable font sizes. > > > > 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, Which is what it does (to the best of its abilities). > though. Laptops are increasingly coming with displays featuring > significantly higher than 96dpi resolution; I'm wondering when the first > 2k LCDs will hit.) You can increase the DPI of the screen in "Universal Access" -> "Larger text". -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
