Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:45:09 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Andreas Hauser <andy@splashground.de>, "Devon H.O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com>, Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi Message-ID: <86zmr78y8q.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20050824083802.GG67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> (Stijn Hoop's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:38:02 %2B0200") References: <17161.55733.272571.61428@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20050822140150.GB27233@raqdevil.offmyserver.com> <20050822185748.22499.qmail@paladin.fortunaty.net> <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland> <20050824083802.GG67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> writes: > I don't know when X gained the capability to decipher this on its own, but > I know that lots of people were running with 75dpi on 100dpi monitors, > resulting in horrible default fonts etc. One of the problems with webpages > in *nix vs Windows, differing fontsizes, is caused by exactly this. X will correctly determine the physical resolution on DDC-capable monitors (with a DDC-capable graphics adapter, of course). Otherwise, it assumes 75dpi. You can of course specify the correct resolution on the command line, or (better yet) specify the display dimensions in the configuration file and let X figure out the resolution. BTW, back in the bad old days before Xft, X had 75dpi and 100dpi renderings of most fonts and no good way to adapt those to intermediate resolutions. This is still the case for the most commonly used monospace fonts. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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