> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:09, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > Yes, I agree it would be nice. But that belongs in the X > > > department, not with us. > > Thanks for following up on that already. > > > > However, I do think we should try and put all this down in the > > > README.Debian, because I'm sure that being able to display > > > documents at 100% as true physical size is something that many > > > people would like to do. > > > > Should this be filed as a minor/wishlist bug, to avoid being > > forgotten? > > I've made changes to README.Debian in CVS. Do you think they are OK?
I think that there are some more things to mention: - many [xgk]dm configurations (and also /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc for *dm-less cases) in default Debian configurations do pass "-dpi 100" option yo X server, overriding any autodetected DPI. That should be removed for DisplaySize to work - gnome's gconf does mess the autodetected DPI, by setting Xft.dpi to a value entered in configuration dialog, 96 if none was entered. I don't know what is the clean fix for this. Perhaps it should be fixed and gnome side. - From Juergen Kreileder <jk at blackdown.de>: > Note that with most recent graphics cards and monitors XFree86 is able > to get the monitor size (and thus the correct dpi value) through ddc. > > (**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for display device DFP-0: > (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1600x1200": 189.0 MHz, 87.5 kHz, 70.0 Hz > (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1600 x 1200 > (--) NVIDIA(0): Display dimensions: (410, 310) mm > (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (99, 98) > > (That's with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers but other XFree86 drivers > have that support too.)
