I'm trying to get to the bottom of DPI on the latest sid, I think there may be a bug here. In XF86Config I have set:
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE" Option "DPI" "44 x 44" but Gnome will not respect that. I changed the /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi gconf key to 44 and that's really done wonders except it seems certain root processes are not aware of the changes I've made in font settings. The gdm login dialogs, the terminal output in Synaptic Package Manager and the Log File Viewer all have (for this 50" 1080 HDTV display) extremely tiny fonts. Gnome's font settings do not allow me to go any lower than 50. I know 44 DPI is very low for today's desktop monitors, but it makes for an excellent big screen TV. Shouldn't I be able to set this to 44 if that's what my monitor has? I have confirmed the setting in the NVIDIA settings app and with the command `xrdb -query | grep dpi'. Just for fun I created a new user, at first everything looked great. I checked Xft.dpi and it was set to 96, so I merged in 44 and did not notice a difference. The query said Xft.dpi was 44 so I logged in and out and found that Xft.dpi was now set to 0. I think that means gconf is using the X server setting. Thanks for you time, Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
