Settng DPI on gdm and Sessions

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed May 20 00:29:20 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 02:14 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > There's several technical obstacles to this goal, which is why GNOME
> > recently decided to forget about trying to respect this concept
> > ('resolution independence') and just override everyone's DPI setting to
> > 96. This is a regrettable but fairly sensible decision. However, if you
> > don't understand the theory here, you're never going to get what's going
> > on exactly right.
> 
> Uh, I thought that was an old decision and now it got changed to actually
> respect the native DPI. Did they revert it again? (If so, that'd be
> regrettable, as everything else, including KDE, is honoring DPI these
> days.)

Yeah, it ping pongs. :) If I'm keeping score correctly, the last state
is that it got ping ponged back to '96dpi by default for everyone'
again, but I may be off. It doesn't seem to be easily Google-able.
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