On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:11:30 James McKenzie wrote: > Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> Maybe a dumb question, but why is this setting in winecfg in the >> first place? Why can't Wine simply use the DPI info from the X >> server? > > Simple, the DPI setting may be incorrect. I've seen folks using > small fonts (96 dpi) on screens with 1024x768 or higher resolutions. > This would make some programs open into too small an area to be > usable. Add to this that winecfg does emulate the ability of some > systems to custom set the dpi value (I use 133 on my Thinkpad and 120 > on my Mac because of the screen layouts, as I've stated in this > mailing list before.) Thus this ability was retained and a default > of 96 dpi was retained. You can set the DPI of your monitor using DisplaySize in the xorg.conf Monitor section. I don't understand why Wine needs to be different from other X apps when it comes to this. DPI is a server side setting, not client side. Really, the only good reason I can think of is that, due to bad API design and/or sloppy programmers, there may be Windows apps which GUI doesn't scale properly on higher DPI monitors. For instance, when font sizes are set in points while some GUI elements are measured or positioned using pixels.
