Constant DPI regardless of resolution
Nikos Chantziaras
realnc at arcor.de
Tue Jul 1 15:07:52 PDT 2008
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mardi 01 juillet 2008 à 20:39 +0100, David De La Harpe Golden a
> écrit :
>> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>
>>> The DPI you see in software in the DPI it controls. Any auto-scaling
>>> done by the hardware behind its back is beyond the software control.
>>>
>>> What you really want with a DFP is to always operate it at native
>>> resolution without this kind of scaling,
>> I'd agree, but note that one of Nikos' use cases was e.g. using a
>> vmware x server, which appears as a window on a real display. In that
>> case, when the window is resized (by changing the _virtual_ screen
>> size),
>
> I'd expect wmware to decalre a new physical size automatically when that
> happens (since that's its actual behaviour)
This doesn't solve the issue when not using vmware. I fix in X's
configuration solves both cases.
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