* Paul Hartman (Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:38:12 -0500) > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Thorsten Kampe > <thors...@thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
> > That was the solution. I checked the resolution before the upgrade with > > "xdpyinfo | grep resolution" (Tip from the German list): 75 dpi. > > Afterwards: 96 dpi. Setting it to 75 solved the issue. > > > > I'd still like to know what exactly changed and if 75 or 96 is the > > "correct" value. Nevertheless, I have Xorg server 1.6 running and it > > looks fine. > > Divide your screen resolution (pixels) by its visible area (inches) to > get DPI. For example my monitor screen is 16 inches wide and 12 inches > tall and I use 1600x1200 resolution. That is 100dpi. In my system this > is autodetected when xorg starts (maybe the nvidia drivers do it?). This is a VMware virtual machine using a virtual monitor on a physical machine with two physical monitors. I'm not sure whether calculating DPI that way would lead to meaningfull results for the virtual machine. This whole "hard" setting of DPI for a monitor seems anachronistic to me. Thorsten
