Dell 2005FPW runs at 1680x1050 but looks much lower...?

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Billy Tallis wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:06:15 -0600, Christopher J. Bottaro
> <cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>> Peter Arremann wrote:
>> 
>> > On Tuesday 22 March 2005 11:08, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
>> >> I'm running KDE on FC3 using a Dell 2005FPW at 1680x1050.  The problem
>> >> is that it _looks_ like its running at a much lower resolution.
>> >
>> > Can you confirm your resolution? Execute "xwininfo -root" and look at
>> > the width and height?
>> 
>> Yes, the width/height is 1680x1050.
>> 
>> Actually, I've always kind of noticed that similar resolutions always
>> look
>> smaller/sharper in Windows.  Whats up with that?  Its an extra $700 for
>> the next highest resolution for my monitor...=(
> 
> Part of that is probably the font smoothing that windows has, and part
> of it is that Linux is detecting the dpi of your monitor and adjusting
> font sizes accordingly, something that windows is not very good about.
> You should investigate changing the font sizes or overriding the dpi.

How do I override the dpi?  Is that something I do in my xorg.conf?  What
should it be set to?

Thanks!