On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 01:32:25AM -0700, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:19 AM, Ben Stern <bas-savannah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > Desktop environments can handle multiple differing display densities in > different ways. They can rescale the application for example, and I *think* > that's what GNOME does. They can also tell fontconfig different DPI numbers > at run-time, but that's really not the hard part about it. So there isn't any programmatic way to either: - get fontconfig to query X for the DPI and honor the Xft.dpi resource, or - configure fontconfig statically to use a specific DPI per screen? If so, I'll go back to Savannah and open a feature request or something. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Stern This space intentionally left blank. _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
