I agree this is not technically accurate.
However when I fixed the same bug in Xmir a while back I was told by a
Xorg expert that we intend to keep the display resolution at 96x96 DPI
for backward compatibility.
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1620123
Title:
xdpyinfo reports wrong screen dimensions
Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
xdypinfo reports wrong screen dimensions and resolution (always 96x96
dpi).
$ xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution
screen #0:
dimensions: 3840x2160 pixels (1016x571 millimeters)
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
However, xrandr reports the right dimensions:
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 2160, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP1 connected primary 3840x2160+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 600mm x 340mm
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
$ apt-cache policy xorg
xorg:
Installiert: 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
Installationskandidat: 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
Versionstabelle:
*** 1:7.7+13ubuntu3 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
As suggested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-
server/+bug/201491/comments/23 I filed a new report for this.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Sep 4 22:53:47 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-03 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20160719)
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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