On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:54:26PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Karsten M Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > KMS> I note that my system is running at 75 dpi. Will 100 dpi give more or > KMS> less resolution, and how do I set resolution anyway? > > That number is basically a measurement of how big fonts are; a bigger > number means you'll have larger fonts. On a 75dpi display, a 72-point > font will be 75 pixels high, but it would be 100 pixels high on a > 100dpi display. (Because it's trying to be "one inch" tall, and > that's its concept of how big "one inch" is.)
If I understand you correctly you are saying that using -dpi 75 informs an application which wants to display a 72 point font that it will be allowed 75 pixels whereas with -dpi 100 it will get 100 pixels. Having spent some time in the recent past playing with this setting I have to wonder why it is then that changing it on my system does not alter the font size on the screen at all with the majority of applications I use. There may be others, but only I have found only Lyx, August and Ted to respond to an alteration in the dpi switch. This may not be correct, but the only explanation I can think of to account for this behaviour is that most applications do not use the dpi value sent to the X server. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
