Comment 23 for bug 99145
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| hackel (hackel) wrote Re: [feisty] GDM font seems to be to big or too high DPI | #23 |
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This is a serious issue. -dpi 96 should never be used, unless the actual DPI of your screen is 96, and for some reason it is not properly auto-detected. Every other program, including GDM and the login themes, needs to take into account a variable DPI, which is likely to be unique to each user. The drivers and xorg config need to always use the detected DPI, and only default to 96 if this auto-detection fails. It's really annoying how even on Linux a lot of developers seem to assume everyone will be using 96 dpi.
On a 15" screen, 96 dpi is usually 1280x1024 resolution, and most people I know are running 1024x768. My 15" screen is 1920x1200 or 147 dpi, so needless to say, everything looks too big!
I hope we can see this issue resolved at some point...DPI is a physical characteristic of a display and should never be changed. LCDs should never run at less than their native resolution, it's the size of the fonts that should change!