[Xquartz-dev] X11 siplay resolution

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at berkeley.edu
Mon Oct 20 17:28:06 PDT 2008


It's not a simple or trivial fix.  Consider the case where we have  
multiple displays with different resolutions.  XQuartz treats the  
entire desktop as one big display, not two.  So what should it report  
in that case?

It's not a simple issue.

--Jeremy

On Oct 20, 2008, at 13:26, Simone Karin Lehmann wrote:

> Some while ago this topic was discussed on the x11-users mailinglist
> and a bug report was filed
>
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2008/Jul/msg00003.html
>
> how the X11 display resoultion of 75 dpi could be easily changed to
> the more appropriate 96 dpi.
> For more information see this hint
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080621201901244
>
> Since the fix is quite small, is there any chance that this will go
> into the upcoming 2.3.2 ? Setting
>
> defaultserverargs="-dpi 96"
>
> in /usr/X11/bin/startx will be sufficient.
>
> Thx
> Simone
>
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