Hi Behdad, I used KDE to set the DPI, but I don't use a desktop environment in normal life. Is there truly no way to set different resolutions without using a desktop environment? How does GNOME do it? It must tell fontconfig somehow, mustn't it? Thanks, Ben On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 01:16:51AM -0700, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Hi Ben, > > You need a desktop environment that supports different DPIs across > different displays. I *think* most recent versions of GNOME do that but I'm > not sure. > > behdad > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:52 AM, Ben Stern <bas-savannah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> In my fontconfig/conf.d, I can specify fontconfig XML which states a given >> DPI, but I can't specify this per-head. >> >> I'm running multihead on monitors with different resolutions, and my >> choices >> are huge fonts on the lower-resolution monitor and normal sizes on the >> higher resolution monitor, or unreadably small fonts on this hi-res monitor >> and normal size on the low-res monitor. >> >> xdpyinfo | grep inch correctly tells me >> on :0.0: 157x157 dots per inch >> on :0.1: 94x94 dots per inch >> >> xrdb -query | grep dpi correctly tells me >> on :0.0 XFt.dpi: 157 >> on :0.1 XFt.dpi: 94 >> >> farad:~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d$ grep -i -A2 dpi * >> 19-DisplayProperties.conf: <edit name="dpi" mode="assign" >> binding="same"> >> 19-DisplayProperties.conf- <double>157.0</double> >> 19-DisplayProperties.conf- </edit> >> >> Note that without the 19-DisplayProperties.conf setting the DPI to 157 >> explicitly, the menus and other fontconfig-rendered text on my hi-res >> monitor appears to be defaulting to the historic 96 DPI setting, and are >> therefore tiny, because they're approximately 60% of the size they ought to >> be. >> >> How can I tell fontconfig to use the correct DPI on a given head? >> >> (I tried to open this as a bug and was directed here instead.) >> >> Thanks, >> Ben -- Ben Stern This space intentionally left blank. _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
