[Xquartz-dev] X11 siplay resolution

Simone Karin Lehmann simone at lisanet.de
Mon Oct 20 22:57:02 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.
>

AFAIK, in former times, it was assumed on Macs that each display has  
a resolution of 72 dpi, as X assumes a default of 75 dpi. I don't  
know when, but this has changed to 96 dpi. Isn't it so?

Simone


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