Retitling this bug, since it affects current X servers as well, though possibly only randr-1.2-capable drivers as mentioned in comment 63 and the immediately preceding comments.
This needs fixing. Each time I set up a new system, I end up with incredibly tiny fonts, and I end up having to manaully fix (and hardcode) the DPI to use the correctly autodetected value. The server already has a flag to override DPI with a constant value (namely -dpi). It doesn't need a flag to go back to autodetection, because it needs to do that by default. Nothing needs the X server to hardcode 96 DPI; browsers can already do that if they want to. (Chrome already does so, in a misguided attempt to force a constant ratio between "px" and "pt" across all websites. Firefox still seems to respect the system DPI by default, AFAICT.) Meanwhile, having the correct DPI makes fonts have reasonable sizes, and makes "100% zoom" in various applications (such as evince) match the physical dimensions of a page. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521877 Title: [gm45] wrong screen size detected on X200s To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/521877/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
