XFCE 4.2.0, Xft resolution, DBus and ssh-agent

[Jens Luedicke]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:42:24 +0100, LiNuCe <linuce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I'm currently packaging XFCE 4.2.0 for Linux Slackware 10.0. I have
> noticed that default xinitrc script for XFCE set Xft resolution to 96
> (instead of using default X resolution) and try to start the dbus daemon
> and ssh-agent. Here are my questions :
> 
>    1) Why do not use the default Xft resolution ? On 72/75 DPI screen,
> it's a bad idea to set Xft resolution to 96 DPI as it give a very huge
> font size.

I made the experience that you get the best font appearence/results with
96 dpi. I had crippled looking truetype fonts and font size
differences in Gtk and Qt
without running the server in 96 dpi. 
 

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