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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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