Attached are updated patches that apply to the latest X.Org in unstable.
Cheers,
Christopher Martin
On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:09, Christopher Martin wrote:
Any chance that the changes I suggested below (in previous posts to this
bug number) will be reviewed in time to make the 6.9.0 release upload?
The problems I describe are still relevant. Let me know if I can supply
any further information, or answer any questions.
Thanks,
Christopher Martin
On May 20, 2005 11:07, Christopher Martin wrote:
These patches, for the etch-targeted X.Org server, improve dpi handling
in several ways.
The first, fallback_dpi.patch, is a new one-line patch that changes the
xserver's final fallback dpi value from 75 to 100. I've written
extensively (to this bug report) on why this is a very important and
quite safe change that would be great to have in the X.Org packages. In
summary, since a default fallback value will always be required, we
should make it a good one. This has ramifications for the choosing of
default font sizes (in KDE, for instance).
The other two items, 905_debian_xdm.diff.diff and xserverrc.diff, are
diffs to existing Debian patches and files. They remove the forcing of
100 dpi on startup, when using startx or xdm. With the pending debconf
reforms, and the near-ubiquity of DDC, it no longer makes sense to
force a specific dpi value on startup as the default behaviour. In
conjunction with
fallback_dpi.patch, users for whom dpi auto-calculation fails will
notice no difference, since X would in this case fall back to 100 dpi
anyway. I've made more general arguments about dpi handling in my
previous posts to #237877.
I'm putting forth these diffs while the X.Org packages are young and
experimental, since this is the perfect time to try these sorts of
changes. I hope you'll apply them.
--- xorg.orig/debian/patches/debian/905_debian_xdm.diff
+++ xorg.patched/debian/patches/debian/905_debian_xdm.diff
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
* config/Xres.cpp: report OS name in greeter widget
* config/Xserv.ws.cpp:
- add comments to help local admins
-- run local server with DPI setting forced to 100 and TCP listening
- turned off for security
+- run local server with TCP listening turned off for security
* config/Xsession: replace guts with simple call to Debian's Xsession
script
* config/xdm-conf.cpp:
@@ -124,7 +123,7 @@
+XCOMM Examples for multiple local X displays:
+XCOMM :0 local BINDIR/X :0 vt9 -depth 15 -nolisten tcp
+XCOMM :1 local BINDIR/X :1 vt10 -depth 8 -nolisten tcp
-+:0 local BINDIR/X DEFAULTVT -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
++:0 local BINDIR/X DEFAULTVT -nolisten tcp
Index: xc/programs/xdm/config/Xsession.cpp
===
--- xc/programs/xdm/config/Xsession.cpp.orig 2005-12-24 16:46:49.0 -0500
--- xorg.orig/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Priv.h
+++ xorg.patched/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Priv.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
#define DEFAULT_LOG_VERBOSE 3
#endif
#ifndef DEFAULT_DPI
-#define DEFAULT_DPI 75
+#define DEFAULT_DPI 100
#endif
#define DEFAULT_UNRESOLVED TRUE
--- xorg.orig/debian/local/xserverrc
+++ xorg.patched/debian/local/xserverrc
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
# $Id: xserverrc 189 2005-06-11 00:04:27Z branden $
-exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
+exec /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp
