On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Simone Karin Lehmann <simone@lisanet.de> wrote:
>
> My only concern is that the -dpi setting will be wrong with some
> displays.  We should really be querying the native window system and
> hardware to retrieve such data.
>

hhmm, I've tested this on my iMac 20" and on my MacBook 13.3".
Although the iMac has a physical display resolution of ~ 98 dpi and
the MacBook 113 dpi, setting "-dpi 96" in startx gives me the same
font sizes, compared to non-X11 apps.

You must have done something wrong because it definitely makes a difference, at least in terms and emacs.

Bob