Thank you! On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:54 AM Alan Swanson <rei...@improbability.net> wrote: > > > 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. Much appreciated, Alan! Your patches resolved my issues 'Out of the Box!' i.e., < https://metztli.blog/ixiptli/aU2 >
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