Settng DPI on gdm and Sessions

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 11 May 2009 15:50:03 -0600
Christopher A. Williams wrote:

> How do we do this, or are we just simply at the mercy of whatever gdm
> decides to do?

I've been fighting with DPI a lot. My simplest solution is to switch
from gdm to kdm and edit the kdmrc file to add -dpi 96 to the server
args, but you can fool gdm into setting dpi for the duration of the
login screen by copying your own ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/font_rendering
directory to ~gdm (and fixing ownership to be owned by gdm). (This
assumes you have already set dpi to 96 in the fonts tab of the window
appearance preferences).

For more on the DPI saga, see:

http://braindump.home.att.net/dpi.html