blurred fonts

Ross Burton ross at burtonini.com
Wed Nov 30 06:01:01 PST 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:46 +0100, julius Junghans wrote:
> found a formula on this site: 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts to calculate the 
> widht/height from my tft (samsung x20)
> 
> ...E.g. to use a dpi of 75 with a resolution of 1600x1200, the 
> calculation would be 25.4 * 1600 / 75 = 542 and 25.4 * 1200 / 75 = 406, 
> resulting in the setting DisplaySize 542 406....

Erm, doesn't everyone else use a ruler if the screen size isn't
detected, so that the DPI setting is correct?  Enforcing a specific DPI
by faking the physical display size is the strangest thing I've ever
heard...

Ross
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