This is an upstream change to remove all the "advanced" font settings from the control panel. You can still set most all of them within dconf-editor directly though.
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 10:38 -0300, Ryan Hayle wrote: > 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 >
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