[Xquartz-dev] X11 siplay resolution

William Mortensen william5 at u.washington.edu
Mon Oct 20 22:46:41 PDT 2008


I second this. It's not like native applications (in Leopard anyway)  
bother with the true pixel density either. So reporting a constant dpi  
means the sizes of native and X11 apps are always the same, relative  
to each other.


On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:34 PM, Simone Karin Lehmann wrote:

>
>> 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?
>>
>
>
> IMO it should report 96 dpi, as it does it now with 75 dpi.


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