Settng DPI on gdm and Sessions

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 19 May 2009 19:26:34 -0600
Christopher A. Williams wrote:

> Defaulting to 96 DPI, _and_ still letting you set X to something
> different if you wanted to, would count as credit for coming completely
> to their senses. The only regrettable part of it really is that it's
> taken this long for GNOME to figure this out.

Actually, I don't think it should have anything to do with gnome. It
should be in X where it would work for all toolkits across the
board, and allow you to establish different DPI values for
different monitors in a multi-monitor setup.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20545

I'm seriously considering starting work on the EDID filter for
X I proposed in there. It would be great for making X pretend
it had EDID info even when the monitor isn't online when you
bring up X (talking to another system on you KVM switch perhaps).

Probably never be accepted though - everyone seems to hate
allowing users to control any aspect of their systems :-).