Matthieu Herrb wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Nicolas Letellier

>  wrote:

>

>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:42:37 +0300

>> Ihar Hrachyshka  wrote:

>>

>>> Try to manually specify "-dpi XX", f.e. "-dpi 96" in your 'xserveropts'

>>> in 'startx' script.

>>>

>> I don't know which dpi I must use. dpi 96 returns the same size font.

>> Why must I specify it, now?

>>

>>

> The xserver 1.4.2 now defaults to 96dpi. Previous versions had a

> default of 75dpi.

>

> The goal of these changes is to have the actual font size measured

> on-screen (with a ruler) match the specified size, instead of beeing

> just more or less pixels (in typography 1pt = 1/72" = 0.35mm). Modern

> screens are genrally closer to 96dpi than to 75.

>

> The fonts get bigger when the resolution changes to 96dpi witout

> changing the physical screen size because you need more pixels to

> achieve the same size.

>

> And of course some monitors report their resolution wrong, also causing problems

>   

Raises the question of why we still install fonts/100dpi and fonts/75dpi

as Xorg only needs fonts-misc-misc and cursor-misc to start.

All other freetype*,  TTF* , ...

can be installed anywhere, even in $HOME/.fonts