On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:39:40 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 28 dec 10, 09:13:00, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> >> I don't know how exactly it is done, but Linux takes into account the >> actual size of the display (which is reported along its supported >> resolutions) and not only the resolution to determine font sizes (and >> maybe icon sizes or other dimensions of the visual UI, but I have not >> experimented with that). So you get reasonably easy to read (for people >> with good eyesight, at least) fonts at all displays, at all >> resolutions. Under WinXP, if you use a high resolution, you get tiny >> fonts. > > Am I the only one experiencing this? > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 > > (Summary: Xorg forces 96 DPI and it is impossible to change it)
Wow, how bad :-( I don't see any advantadge of having a fixed DPI. > Ok, it doesn't happen with the non-free nvidia driver (and possibly also > not with fglrx), but I expected a lot more people to use free drivers > here. I am using a VM (virtuablox) which has its own Xorg driver and hopefully still can change the dpi at my convenience :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.28.12.20...@gmail.com
