Having now seen Jon's message ... Yes, my XWin log shows a dpi of 192, which is 7576 / 39.37 (inches per meter), rounded.
As I mentioned, it is clear the XWin itself has a notion of resolution, but most applications do not seem to be coded to take it into account. The main ones that I use don't, anyway, and so I needed to adjust things in my .Xdefaults, as I described and gave examples of in my previous posting ... Regards -- EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple