Date: 24 Aug 2005 09:23:49 -0000 From: Andreas Hauser <andy@splashground.de> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: , Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, "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: <20050824092349.30999.qmail@paladin.fortunaty.net> In-Reply-To: <86zmr78y8q.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <20050824083802.GG67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> (Stijn Hoop's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:38:02 %2B0200") <86zmr78y8q.fsf@xps.des.no>
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des wrote @ Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:45:09 +0200: > 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. That works far from always, -dpi 100 is the only way, i know, that works no matter what. Andy
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