On Saturday 17 January 2004 10:15, Dominique Devriese wrote: > Frank Murphy writes: > > I recently noticed that kdm for Debian sets the Xserver dpi to 100 > > with its -dpi 100 switch. I know that all the old de-uglification > > docs recommended this to deal with Netscape's handling of bitmap > > fonts on X. But now that X has better support for truetype fonts > > (plus the free Bitstream Vera fonts), should this be removed? Anyone > > who still wants it could exit the /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers file, or > > better yet, the XF86Config file. > > Any reason why we wouldn't want to have it ?
Well, XFree86 automatically detects the proper dpi. Overriding it with kdm just adds another layer of configuration, which is unnecessary complication. Frank
