On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:17 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008 11:04 PM, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Oh, I'm sure I can fix it myself, either by adjusting the font size or > > using gconf as described in the followups to Amir's post last September. > > But the point is: for myself and Amir and many others, X will get the > > DPI setting wrong. Is there a way we can recognize that it's happening, > > and work around it -- say by using the old defaults -- so it's more > > likely right the first time? > > Don't know the details of the version currently in testing, with the > version in Sid i don't need to specify the screen size anymore. > According to the Xorg Debian changelog, it's now using 96 DPI instead > of 75 DPI as default value (the old one if i'm not wrong)...
Ah, very good. For x11-common, unstable has 1:7.3+10, testing has 1:7.2-5 which dates to last June. The xorg-server-core package is much newer (less than a month). I'll wait a bit and see if things change, or maybe just upgrade to unstable... Thanks for the info. Any ideas on the funny icons or white screen blank? -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
