[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 521877]
The correct DPI is needed for legibility when the same user uses the same font size settings on multiple monitors. When the user sets the base font size to be legible in on 1 monitor and then goes to another which has a higher (true) DPI he will get poorly legible fonts. The correct DPI is needed for WYSIWYG, which is a holy grail of desk top publishing (DTP). X Windows applications increasingly aspire to be suitable for DTP. Look into the future. Monitors have not attained the highest useful DPI. This is only going to become a more pronounced deficiency as monitors increase in DPI. In fact, I suspect that monitor DPI has been somewhat held back by lack of proper support for automatically setting DPI. If current common monitors were completely adequate, we would not care about antialiasing or font hinting so much. 1200DPI or higher is found in printers and I am inclined to think it is not completely a marketing gimmick. 96DPI printers are practically nonexistant. I used to make fun of how MS Windows could not manage to set the DPI correctly automatically, unlike my Xorg, to friends and co-workers. No one attempted to rebut it. Instead of being "compatible with old versions of MS Windows" better is "compatible with reality". Playing a hoax on programmers by default is a bad thing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521877 Title: [gm45] wrong screen size detected on X200s To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/521877/+subscriptions ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 521877]
Take it from a typographer http://www.alistapart.com/articles/realfontsontheweb "We have a world of display devices that have standardized to report their exact resolution, the space it occupies, and thus the pixels per inch, a key to moving text typography forward." Who wants to break the news to him? Welcome to the past Mr. David Berlow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521877 Title: [gm45] wrong screen size detected on X200s To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/521877/+subscriptions ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 201032] Re: xorg gets wrong screen dpi on LPL id 48128
It appears this is the bug I am seeing in Lucid Lynx. I used Option "ModeDebug" "true" and see the correct size read for the monitor in Xorg.0.log . xdpyinfo reports resolution:96x96 dots per inch I am also using the "intel" driver. Setting DisplaySize in xorg.conf also has no effect. Setting DPI by the -dpi parameter from the command line works. This computer has 2 LCDs attached. 1 LVDS 1 VGA The LVDS monitor is disabled in xorg.conf. It is not entirely the same, but perhaps this bug i related to Bug #201491. I tested whether I could be observing Bug #246718. This is not. ogc, would you please update the title to reflect that this is a more generic bug in not setting the DPI? ** Summary changed: - xorg gets wrong screen dpi on LPL id 48128 + DPI not set or incorrectly set to 96 ** Tags added: lucid -- DPI not set or incorrectly set to 96 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201032 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 201032] Re: DPI not set or incorrectly set to 96
I have the same or related manufacturer (LG) of the LCD and graphics card. The DPI being set is different. I notice now, his is not 96x96. Are you saying GNOME desktop detects something and sets DPI to 96 and this may be why ogc has a different DPI and I have 96? Do you still think a separate bug is more suitable? -- DPI not set or incorrectly set to 96 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201032 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
