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equilibrium
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 Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 1:50 pm Post subject: Make X start with a certain dpi |
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OK I stumbled by this after using gnome and changing the resolution with the gnome tool. But now I've gone back to kde and want to change dpi. You can do "startx -- -dpi 100" but I cba typing all that every bootup. So to get it to do it automatically just do:
| Code: | nano -w /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
find - serverflags=
add in "-dpi 100"
eg- serverflags="-dpi 100" |
or for gdm
| Code: | nano -w /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
find command=
add in -dpi 100
eg- command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0 -dpi 100 |
Don't know if this has been documented but I looked thru the forums and didn't see it anywhere 
note: just change 100 to whatever you want. You can always play around with startx -- -dpi "xxx" before adding this
you can check the dpi has changed by doing : "xdpyinfo | grep resolution"
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mbobak
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject: DDC? |
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| Isn't this somewhat irrelevant since X started supporting DDC? |
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equilibrium
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure but there are a number of threads asking about setting the dpi of X to a certain value, which was why I posted this .
Also not everyone is using the newest version of X ?
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cato`
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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If you use bash, isn't it easier to edit the .bashrc file? (if the system does not ut xdm)
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startx="startx -- -dpi 100"
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glen666
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Joined: 06 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:58 am Post subject: confconfig |
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you can achive same for fontconfig-based apps
just add this to your ~/.fonts.conf:
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<match target="pattern" >
<edit mode="assign" name="dpi" >
<int>90</int>
</edit>
</match>
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but i have rather question, how to figure out the correct DPI for the monitor, i had default 72, which was small, i set to 90, that was too big. can i set any number i'd like? |
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