It seems that Xorg is no longer setting correct DPI automatically. There was a long flamewar about this silly behavior on bug tracker here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 As recommended, I'm posting here.
This bug above means any XRandr 1.2 supporting card reports incorrect DPI to the userland. (e.g. my intel chip) There is no way to return to correct behavior. The patch providing the option was ignored. The only way remaining is to force X server dpi setting with -dpi or xrandr --dpi. Could someone actually please fix this misbehavior instead of insisting it's the correct one? Bug compatibility with inferior OSes should be optional - and there are ways to override DPI already available to distros if they want to be compatible with Windows older than Vista. Invalid DPI causes issues with Freetype antialiasing and tiny font sizes on high resolution laptops. While it is a non-trivial problem in multi-screen case, I think a best compromise should just be selected instead of forcing an outdated default. -- Radosław Szkodziński _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
