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Target: tribe-5 = ubuntu-7.10-beta
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Pardon my curiosity, but what is the significance of the OS knowing the
PPI of the screen? Consider the following scenarios:
Screen #1 is an independent monitor: a 19 LCD with native 1280x1024
resolution. The PPI is approx. 85. The user sits between 3 and 5 feet
away from this screen.
Screen
Both are necessary, but the only thing we can scale right now is fonts
so we should talk about this in a blueprint.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/resolution-independence
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(Correct me if I'm wrong here, but... this is why to the best of my
understanding.)
The reason for knowing the DPI hasn't been too important in the past,
but could grow to become a bigger issue in the future. This is because
although most current screens are approximately 96 DPI, there is room
A possible solution to the bad DPI detection could be to have a simple
way of allowing users to input it on install.
This could be done by showing a ruler on the screen and asking users to
expand/compress it until it matches up with the markings on a real
ruler. (Windows has a similar method, and
We don't have resolution independence yet in GNOME. As such, the only
thing that is affected by screen DPI are the fonts. Proportionality
between text and other graphical elements, particularly icons, is of
primary concern for most users. The only way that proportionality looks
right, is with 13
What's this thing about guessing? When the live-cd boot screen appears
you can select your screen size from there. How come the boot graphics
aren't the same as the normal graphics? Can't X use a default dpi based
on the screen size you selected at boot time? Of course there's some
abstraction
Fwiw, bulletproof-x is just a failsafe mode for X, and wouldn't have any
bearing on this issue.
It sort of sounds like the issue here is that Gnome is guessing the
correct dpi by looking at the refresh rates. Unfortunately, in most
cases the refresh rates are themselves just guesses done by the
When X can pick any random DPI there's no right answer as to what the
default font size should be. I recommend adopting the guidance-restore
script which sets up a sane DPI. Install kde-guidance and restart the X
server to test. It can easily be moved to guidance-backends.
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Font sizes in
How big is your screen? (Physically)
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I don't know if this is the same problem, but on the latest update, text pretty
much everywhere got really small.
I have a screenshot of the problem attached.
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Font sizes in Gutsy are vulnerable
It's about 11 1/2 inches horizontally and 8 1/2 inches vertically not including
the border around the edges.
It's a Dell Latitude D610 laptop.
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Font sizes in Gutsy are vulnerable to bad X.org DPI detection
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I have a 40 inch 1920*1080 display attached (Approximately 55 dpi
according to my calculations). Xorg.log says it detects a DPI value of
304, 304.
I get *GIGANTIC* fonts and Icons and am unable to install gutsy tribe 4 or
change anything because hardly nothing fits on
my screen !
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Font sizes
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Not sure if bug #107320 (that itself have duplicates) is related and or
duplicate of this one.
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Mike: it's gnome-font-properties.
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What is the name of the control panel app that lets you change font
sizes? I have a non-standard Ubuntu install, so I need to know the name
of the app to launch it from the command line. Thanks.
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Hello Andreas
Presumably your fonts scaled to 75dpi but displayed on your 96dpi
screen. They were therefore not displayed as an 11pt font but instead
displayed as an 8.5pt font. Now the dpi is presumably detected
correctly, it is displayed, as set, at 11pt.
As you rightly say, there is a matter
I would like to point out that this issue touches on personal taste. I
liked the small menu font size in Tribe 2 whereas I do not like the
11pt at 96dpi setting I suddenly had after today's updates. Please
reconsider imposing that on all users without asking.
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I noticed in this discussion that firefox is removed from this issue,
however Bug #121738 in firefox (Ubuntu) is makred a duplicate of this
and it shows a difference between firefox menu font (not its contents)
with the gnome menus.
I have that same problem that the firefox menu font is too
Firefox was removed from this issue because firefox isnt causing this
problem it is affected by it.
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Hi i confirm this problem on a fresh install of tribe 2.
Fonts are too small. following Nick_Hill post, i set dpi to 85 and all is ok
now.
Tell me if you need more specific informations.
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Hello Patrice
How did you sett he DPI for your system?
For my 17 TFT monitor, I set screen size and hence DPI in xorg.conf like:
Section Monitor
Identifier Generic Monitor
Option DPMS
HorizSync 30-65
VertRefresh 50-75
DisplaySize
Well, at least in my case the correct DPI seems to have been detected in
Tribe 2. However, 11 pt system font is too big at my actual system DPI
- though 10 pt (the original setting) is perfectly fine.
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As an update to my suggestion to have the DPI settable in a Gnome
interface,
I suggest replacing the DPI drop-down box that I previously suggested,
with a screen size drop-down box. And add two fields for width and
height. If anything other than user defined is selected, the width and
height
Rejecting firefox task as it is not a firefox issue.
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I have a switch box. The switch box doesn't appear to send DDC signals
through, whether or not the monitor is live when X starts.
If I start X with the monitor connected directly to the computer, X
sets DPI at 95, 96 . If the monitor is not connected, it sets the DPI at
75. At 75dpi, the fonts
** Summary changed:
- default desktop/panel menu font sizes too small
+ Font sizes in Gutsy are vulnerable to bad X.org DPI detection
** Description changed:
- since gutsy, font sizes are too small.
+ In Gutsy, Gnome switched to using the X server's screen DPI detection,
+ which means that
Hi,
Mark Shuttleworth [2007-06-28 17:33 -]:
- since gutsy, font sizes are too small.
+ In Gutsy, Gnome switched to using the X server's screen DPI detection,
+ which means that fonts can easily appear to be too large or too small,
+ depending on your screen setup. The old approach was to
In my experience, changing the DPI does have an effect . However, what I'm
finding is that even with the *correct* DPI values, the fonts can be way too
big.
In my case, using the correct value (112 dpi) causes my MacBook to have fonts
that are intolerably large. 96 dpi, on the other hand,
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