[Xquartz-dev] X11 siplay resolution

[Jeremy Huddleston]

While it is not the correct end-game fix, I agree that 96 is a better  
arbitrary dpi to set default than 75.  That change is in git.

--Jeremy

On Oct 21, 2008, at 06:07, Bob wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Simone Karin Lehmann <simone at 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
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