Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
You could also calculate a display size in mm x mm according to the LCD resolution and the desired DPI value and set it in the Monitor section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, e.g., DisplaySize 285 214 -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 20 oct 10, 10:51:03, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: You could also calculate a display size in mm x mm according to the LCD resolution and the desired DPI value and set it in the Monitor section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, e.g., DisplaySize 285 214 According to my experience and the

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On 10/18/2010 11:36 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 13 oct 10, 11:34:30, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually 107 DPI. What's the best way to let x.org know the

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 19 oct 10, 12:53:48, Paul Johnson wrote: On 10/18/2010 11:36 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 13 oct 10, 11:34:30, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 13 oct 10, 11:34:30, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually 107 DPI. What's the best way to let x.org know the internal display's actual DPI? According to

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:55:52 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:27 +, Camaleón wrote: I noticed the fonts settings control in GNOME, but this doesn't pass the DPI to other programs that check the system DPI setting, such as Adobe Reader. For Acrobat Reader

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:34:30 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually 107 DPI. What's the best way to let x.org know the internal display's actual DPI? In

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-14 Thread Nick Jones
On 13 October 2010 17:34, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: [..] What's the best way to let x.org know the internal display's actual DPI? If you use 'startx', then you can do: $ startx -- -dpi 107 This section from Arch Linux's wiki does a good job of explaining how to adjust this

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On 10/14/2010 02:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:34:30 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually 107 DPI. What's the best way to let x.org know

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:46:37 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On 10/14/2010 02:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:34:30 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:27 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:46:37 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On 10/14/2010 02:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:34:30 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some

Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually 107 DPI. What's the best way to let x.org know the internal display's actual DPI? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop.  For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually 107 DPI.  What's the best way to let x.org know the internal display's