On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:42:23AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 23:33:42 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:36:22PM +0100, Dan H wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > having managed to start X from the console (see other thread), I noticed 
> > > different font sizes on applications. I traced this down to different 
> > > screen resolution settings depending on how X was started:
> > > 
> > > After startx from console:
> > > $ xdpyinfo | egrep '(dimension|resolution)'
> > >   dimensions:    1280x1024 pixels (325x260 millimeters)
> > >   resolution:    100x100 dots per inch
> > 
> > ps aux | grep X will probably show a '-dpi 100' parameter to X. You have 
> > to get rid of it (but I don't remember where it's set).
> 
> I think it is in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc.
> 
> IIRC, specifying the DisplaySize explicitly in xorg.conf should be
> sufficient to make DPI settings consistent.

According to http://scanline.ca/dpi/index-old.html the -dpi option has 
higher priority.

Regards,
Andrei
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