> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:01 AM Alan Swanson <rei...@improbability.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that setting DPI to anything other than 96 breaks
> > many applications and toolkits, not just font sizing but GUI
> > rendering breakage. Historical cruft unfortunately but you have
> > to deal with it.
> >
> > Even the recent Xorg 21.1.2 release had to revert this type of
> > change;
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=35af1299e73483eaf93d913a960e1d1738bc7de6
> >
> > I've personally patched Enlightenment 0.25 to fix commit
> > 4b87781bae4a6ea70e5b6f38683e7c2ea0fd2c27 "scaling - remove
> > custon x application dpi and move to central scaling" by
> > reverting to 96dpi by default.
>
> Would you mind sharing your patch? Non-experts like myself who expect
> the GUI to simply 'just work' and not have to fiddle with extraneous
> settings would *really* appreciate it. Thank you in advance for your
> consideration.
Well, you don't have to apply the patch as you just can do the
following instead.
> > Also needed to go through Settings-Look-Scaling-Advanced and
> > then either unset "Set Application DPI" or adjust it to 96 to
> > update the existing saved setting.
But attached is the patch along with another patch I tried whilst
investigating the problem that reverts the default font size from 10
back to 12 if unset as this was an undocumented/unintended change in
the following commit.
https://git.enlightenment.org/core/enlightenment.git/commit/src/bin/e_xsettings.c?h=v-0.25.0&id=71b5cb3e7c963f10af9be66df958ac98e92f8042
--
Alan.
diff -ur enlightenment-0.25.1/data/config/default/e.src enlightenment-0.25.1-fixdpi/data/config/default/e.src
--- enlightenment-0.25.1/data/config/default/e.src 2022-01-03 00:52:26.000000000 +0000
+++ enlightenment-0.25.1-fixdpi/data/config/default/e.src 2022-01-14 14:17:42.226032071 +0000
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
value "scale.base_dpi" int: 90;
value "scale.use_dpi" uchar: 1;
value "scale.use_custom" uchar: 0;
- value "scale.xapp_base_dpi" int: 75;
+ value "scale.xapp_base_dpi" int: 96;
value "scale.set_xapp_dpi" uchar: 1;
value "show_cursor" uchar: 1;
value "idle_cursor" uchar: 1;
diff -ur enlightenment-0.25.1/data/config/standard/e.src enlightenment-0.25.1-fixdpi/data/config/standard/e.src
--- enlightenment-0.25.1/data/config/standard/e.src 2022-01-03 00:52:26.000000000 +0000
+++ enlightenment-0.25.1-fixdpi/data/config/standard/e.src 2022-01-14 14:17:57.300024233 +0000
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
value "scale.base_dpi" int: 90;
value "scale.use_dpi" uchar: 0;
value "scale.use_custom" uchar: 0;
- value "scale.xapp_base_dpi" int: 75;
+ value "scale.xapp_base_dpi" int: 96;
value "scale.set_xapp_dpi" uchar: 1;
value "show_cursor" uchar: 1;
value "idle_cursor" uchar: 1;
diff -ur enlightenment-0.25.1/data/config/tiling/e.src enlightenment-0.25.1-fixdpi/data/config/tiling/e.src
--- enlightenment-0.25.1/data/config/tiling/e.src 2022-01-03 00:52:26.000000000 +0000
+++ enlightenment-0.25.1-fixdpi/data/config/tiling/e.src 2022-01-14 14:18:11.373013785 +0000
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
value "scale.base_dpi" int: 90;
value "scale.use_dpi" uchar: 0;
value "scale.use_custom" uchar: 0;
- value "scale.xapp_base_dpi" int: 75;
+ value "scale.xapp_base_dpi" int: 96;
value "scale.set_xapp_dpi" uchar: 1;
value "show_cursor" uchar: 1;
value "idle_cursor" uchar: 1;
diff -ur enlightenment-0.25.1/src/bin/e_config.c enlightenment-0.25.1-fixdpi/src/bin/e_config.c
--- enlightenment-0.25.1/src/bin/e_config.c 2022-01-03 00:52:26.000000000 +0000
+++ enlightenment-0.25.1-fixdpi/src/bin/e_config.c 2022-01-14 14:19:15.539959020 +0000
@@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@
CONFIG_VERSION_CHECK(34)
{
CONFIG_VERSION_UPDATE_INFO(34);
- e_config->scale.xapp_base_dpi = 75;
+ e_config->scale.xapp_base_dpi = 96;
e_config->scale.set_xapp_dpi = 1;
e_config_save_queue();
}
xsettings - always use decimal for format for float prints
https://git.enlightenment.org/core/enlightenment.git/commit/src/bin/e_xsettings.c?h=v-0.25.0&id=71b5cb3e7c963f10af9be66df958ac98e92f8042
Appears to change default font to size 10 from 12.
--- enlightenment-0.25.1/src/bin/e_xsettings.c 2022-01-03 00:52:26.000000000 +0000
+++ enlightenment-0.25.1/src/bin/e_xsettings.c 2022-01-13 17:40:15.997331652 +0000
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@
const char *p;
/* TODO better way to convert evas font sizes? */
- if (!size) size = 10; // default if not set
+ if (!size) size = 12; // default if not set
else if (size < 0) size /= -10; // in 1/10th units
// limit sizes
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