Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Beartooth wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:38:35 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: [] Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to flush their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else. The debate between the (mostly silent) elitists and the power t

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: Sam Varshavchik: /facepalm The good news here, I think is that these kinds of situations tend to solve themselves, eventually, one way or the other. It's only a matter of time. I just need a free weekend. Bill Davidsen: It won't take that long to can GNOME and run something else.

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-13 Thread Tim
Sam Varshavchik: >> /facepalm >> >> The good news here, I think is that these kinds of situations tend to solve >> themselves, eventually, one way or the other. It's only a matter of time. I >> just >> need a free weekend. Bill Davidsen: > It won't take that long to can GNOME and run something e

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Joe Zeff writes: On 05/12/2012 12:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to flush their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else. I wouldn't go that far, but only because I don't think the Gnome devs are

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-13 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:38:35 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: [] > Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to > flush their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else. The debate between the (mostly silent) elitists and the power to the people adv

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/12/2012 03:27 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Whatever. What you're saying is that this is indifference or ignorance, rather than arrogance. Indifference and arrogance masquerading as malice. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joe Zeff writes: On 05/12/2012 12:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to flush their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else. I wouldn't go that far, but only because I don't think the Gnome devs are even aware of how man

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/12/2012 12:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to flush their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else. I wouldn't go that far, but only because I don't think the Gnome devs are even aware of how many people they're ant

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Sat, 12 May 2012 14:49:49 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > There should be an easy way I can tell Xorg what my real DPI is, so > everything looks sane. Welcome to the twilight zone: Google already showed me the way. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451562 T

Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 12 May 2012 14:49:49 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > There should be an easy way I can tell Xorg what my real DPI is, so > everything looks sane. Welcome to the twilight zone: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451562 The simplest fix is to switch to KDM for your login manager

How to change the display's dots per inch setting

2012-05-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Everything on my laptop's screen is too small. I calculated that my DPI is 140, not the default 96. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Better_DPI does not tell me anything that's useful. Remote X clients, from an ssh-tunnelled connection, don't give a hoot about my desktop's usability