Hello List, I know this issue has allready been discussed a few times in the last months, but xorg is now in unstable and it still defaults to 75dpi.
I don't want to raise a big discussion here about the pros and cons of dpi, I just want to know whether there is something in planning to fix this problem once for all. I'd like to suggest something like: If you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg the wizard could ask for the screensize of your monitor (15'', 17'', ...) and your desired default resolution (here I mean with resolution: 1280x1024pixels). Now the wizard could calculate the correct dpi-setting and change all configs as nessessary. If this is for some reason not possible, maybe xorg could at least default to 96dpi. Some people bring always the argument, that X can guess this automaticly, but this has never bin true for *my* boxes -- they always defaulted to 75dpi and I had to change it somewhere in the configs by myself (which is not userfriendly at all, just think of this md5sum-stuff...). I have a laptop with 14'' display and 75dpi here would be ok (allthough 96 look better) but I have a 19'' display too and with 75dpi and 1280x1024-resolution the default-fonts are way too small. I've heard, gnome users don't have such problems at all, because gnome defaults to 96dpi but I am using kdm and kde. I think the last post in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237877 has a solution for the default-dpi. Some nice reading about this topic: http://scanline.ca/dpi/index.html Kind regards Bastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
