It seems that there is no longer a way to set the correct DPI for a particular screen. I'm testing 12.04 on a MacBook with a 110 DPI screen. This is correctly detected by Xorg (107x103 detected by nvidia driver in Xorg log file), however xdpyinfo shows the resolution is still set to 96 DPI. I don't even know what layer of Xorg/GNOME/Unity is causing this problem, so I'm not sure where to file a proper bug report anymore. It seems like a rather serious issue to fix before 12.04 is released for 5 years!
There is already a wishlist bug to add this to the Displays control panel: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/8357 It should presented in such a way that users understand that this is a physical characteristic of their display that must be correct and should never be changed. I guess GNOME 3 also text-scaling-factor setting which is useful, but should not be confused with the physical DPI characteristic. Unfortunately it seems this is not quite the same as a UI-scaling property which would resize UI elements as well, which is what we really need. Thoughts? What am I missing here? My main laptop has as 147 screen, and I would never want a lower resolution screen again, so I really hope to see this issue finally fixed! -- Ryan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
