* Adam Jackson (2007-01-04 10:17 -0500) said: ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > The DPI setting reported by X is the physical dots per inch of the > monitor. You never want to override this, because it determines how > big Freetype thinks pixels really are, and therefore affects > coloration when doing subpixel antialiasing. X should be getting it > correct. But X detects the physical DPI wrong. My screen is LCD on a laptop DEll 700M with 1280x800 pixels (262x164 millimeters). If I set "DisplaySize 261 163" in xorg.conf. The dpi is 124x124. > X's DPI number also happens to get used when rendering core fonts, > as a conversion factor between point size and pixels. If you still > have any apps that use core fonts, well, you have already lost, and > changing X's DPI setting to make them look "better" will just make > your non-core fonts look worse. -- Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
