From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 09:45:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7918E16A41F for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:45:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1AE43D45 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:45:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB236143; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:44:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C57610B; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:44:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C46A333CA7; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:45:09 +0200 (CEST) To: Stijn Hoop References: <17161.55733.272571.61428@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20050822140150.GB27233@raqdevil.offmyserver.com> <20050822185748.22499.qmail@paladin.fortunaty.net> <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland> <20050824083802.GG67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:45:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20050824083802.GG67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> (Stijn Hoop's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:38:02 +0200") Message-ID: <86zmr78y8q.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Tests: ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -5.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on tim.des.no Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Andreas Hauser , "Devon H.O'Dell" , Stefan Ehmann , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Eric Anderson Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:45:17 -0000 Stijn Hoop writes: > I don't know when X gained the capability to decipher this on its own, but > I know that lots of people were running with 75dpi on 100dpi monitors, > resulting in horrible default fonts etc. One of the problems with webpages > in *nix vs Windows, differing fontsizes, is caused by exactly this. X will correctly determine the physical resolution on DDC-capable monitors (with a DDC-capable graphics adapter, of course). Otherwise, it assumes 75dpi. You can of course specify the correct resolution on the command line, or (better yet) specify the display dimensions in the configuration file and let X figure out the resolution. BTW, back in the bad old days before Xft, X had 75dpi and 100dpi renderings of most fonts and no good way to adapt those to intermediate resolutions. This is still the case for the most commonly used monospace fonts. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no