Settng DPI on gdm and Sessions

[Mary Ellen Foster]

2009/5/20 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
> When GNOME's not defaulting to 96 dpi, it automatically inherits X's
> setting, but if you override it via GNOME's font configuration dialog,
> it sets it in a private way and the changed setting applies only to GTK+
> apps. I think KDE is the same way. It might be nice if this were all
> co-ordinated between X, GNOME and KDE so that you can choose a manual
> setting either directly in some config file, or the GNOME / KDE apps
> would just poke that config file. Then it'd be nice and consistent.

In my experience, KDE uses a weird mishmash of the strictly accurate
DPI (window contents) and something that I suspect is hard-coded 96DPI
(window decoration, taskbar):
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468451
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179962
Then Gnome apps run under KDE seem to do something different again,
but I haven't worked that out exactly.

I've got acceptable-looking results on both of my high-DPI screens by
setting the KDE fonts to 120DPI through the config tool, which gets
things close enough, but that's not super elegant or satisfying.

MEF

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