@Sergio, sorry but your comments are OT. Different resolutions for different screens are not supported on the toolkit level; a window can be on both screens at once and such, and it is beyond the scope of this bug. Viewing distance again has nothing to do with this bug; DPI does not depend on the viewing distance, it simply expresses physical dimensions (lengths) of one pixel; length does not depend on distance (I am a physicist, I know that one for sure). Of course for guessing comfortable font size for reading, viewing distance is important, but that is an entirely different problem, although it actually required a valid value of DPI.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589485 Title: Ignores physical display size and calculates based on 96DPI Status in X.Org X server: Confirmed Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The X server, starting with 1.7, ignores the physical size reported by the EDID or in xorg.conf and calculates it based on screen resolution and a DPI of 96. This is rather annoying for users of high DPI screens. GNOME and KDE (used?) to set 96 DPI by default in their settings. We should check whether they still do, and if so let them handle this; I don't think X should be handling this. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/589485/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
