DPI fix in xfsettings and xfce4-settings

Jannis Pohlmann jannis at xfce.org
Wed Sep 10 01:02:35 CEST 2008


Am Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:57:26 -0700
schrieb Josh Saddler <nightmorph at gentoo.org>:

> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > However, this is critical: Please make sure that you have a
> > realistic value (something between 50 and 150) in the '/Xft/DPI'
> > property in
> > ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml. Otherwise
> > you might encounter serious problems!
> 
> What about folks with those ultra-huge >=30" Dell monitors, or
> similar? They usually have to use much higher DPIs than 96 or 120.
> Out of curiosity, what exactly does happen if you set DPI to
> something like 165?

In fact, you can use anything you want. Just make sure it's either -1
(which uses the default for your screen) or any other sane value for
your screen but just not 96000 or something like that.

  - Jannis



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