DPI fix in xfsettings and xfce4-settings

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:48:13 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

> On mar, 2008-09-09 at 21:05 +0200, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > I don't know if this is the final solution but I just committed a
> > fix to xfsettingsd and xfce4-settings for a DPI problem I spotted.
> 
> Ok, here with “latest” (on sarts alpha folder, so…) xfconfd and
> xfce4-settings, using -1 (default) for dpi settings doesn't work.
> 
> I don't want to force them, but currently my only choice is to force
> them to 125 dpi (which is my config) to have correct font settings.
> Without that, fonts are too tiny in gtk (so I have to tune them), and
> even disappear in xfce website in epiphany-gecko:
> 
> http://molly.corsac.net/~corsac/xfce/
> 
> Btw, with current xfconf/xfce4-settings, using:
> 
> xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/DPI -s 125
> 
> leads to have 48 in the Appearance Settings window. So there is still
> some problems :)
> 
> In 4.4, when one set the dpi, it was passed “as is” to xrdb, iirc. Why
> is there now a scaling factor?

Yeah, that's what I'd like to know as well.

The problem with the current (val * 1024) hack, by the way, is that if
you set it to -1, it actually sets -1024, which doesn't quite work as
"default".

	-b