On 2013-01-21 21:07 (GMT+0100) Radoslaw Szkodzinski composed:
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.
Are you sure your distro isn't forcing DPI to 96 surreptitiously? Are you sure there is no "Xft.dpi: 96" hiding in an Xresources or other config file somewhere?
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.
This is not true. I just confirmed on Fedora 19 with 1.13.99.901 that xorg.conf (and alternatively xorg.conf.d/ in some cases) can be used to force DPI instead of using xrandr or a server startup option.
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.
+1
Invalid DPI causes issues with Freetype antialiasing and tiny font sizes on high resolution laptops.
+1
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is a non-trivial problem in multi-screen case, I think a best compromise should just be selected instead of forcing an outdated default.
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