[Debian-eeepc-devel] Xserver 1.7 and screen DPI

Luca Niccoli lultimouomo at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 13:03:46 UTC 2010


Hi,

xserver-xorg 1.7 has changed the default setting for screen DPI:
it is now faking a fixed 96DPI resolution for every screen [0]
I consider this a bad choice and I've been vocal about it, but I don't
see a change coming.
Now I was wondering if debian-eee should do something about it - e.g.
set the proper resolution in
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/

On the one hand, I feel that on a screen ad 135DPI reading fonts
rendered at 96DPI is very hard, and could spoil the smooth experience
one would like to have installing Debian.
On the other hand, I see three problems:
- automatically setting the proper resolution could be tricky.
- it doesn't really belong to Debian-eee, it's a problem for every
computer with a high resolution display.
- doing tricks to revert an upstream choice is terribly bad.

I write this post more to have some feedback about your feeling with
the new X behaviour and discuss about long term solutions then to
propose a stopgap fix - I'm not convinced the latter would be a good
choice.
I thought this list would be a good place since all the Eees have very
high screen resolutions.

Cheers,

Luca

[0]
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705



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