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Bug 153634 - would be nice to have a DPI option here
would be nice to have a DPI option here
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
2.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: randr-tracker
 
 
Reported: 2004-09-24 12:48 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2011-03-03 17:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Sebastien Bacher 2004-09-24 12:48:04 UTC 
This bug has been reported here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/1601


" Screen Resolution should not only allow to set widht, height, and frequency,
but also the physical resolution of the monitor. A friend of mine got 1600x1200
as default resolution, which makes characters far too small to be readable.

Instead of specifying a DPI number directly (which is somewhat abstract), there
should be two rulers displayed; either the user measures them with a "hardware
ruler" and enters the lengths of the displayed rulers (much like GIMP does), or
there is a slider for each direction which scale the displayed rulers until they
match the hardware ruler.

> you can specify the DPI in the fonts config 

This is hidden very well, you even have to click at "Details" to see it. "Screen
resolution" is exactly the word that describes a DPI setting.

Can we reopen this bug? It's just enhancement, after all. At least the screen
resolution configuration should point to the place where you can change the DPI
setting."

To summarize it would be nice to have DPI option or a link to the DPI config in
the screen capplet ...
Comment 1 Evan Klitzke 2007-05-07 22:35:24 UTC 
I think that the bug that I just filed, which is a request to have Gnome autodetect the DPI setting since the X server is aware of it, is a better solution than adding another DPI option. Sebastien, if you (or any of the other developers that might be affected by this) agree, the bug I filed is 436724, and you change the status of this and redirect this bug there.
Comment 2 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-08-31 07:44:46 UTC 
see bug #104341
Comment 3 Federico Mena Quintero 2009-02-26 01:17:15 UTC 
See bug #545112 for a caveat about how the display capplet assumes that DPI=96.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2011-03-03 17:28:15 UTC 
commit a49af89751057649034a42c511d2330d63bbfa6e
Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Date:   Thu Mar 3 17:16:42 2011 +0000

    xsettings: Hard-code the default DPI
    
    We cannot rely on the X server giving us a decent DPI value,
    and we do not want to change the DPI when the resolution changes,
    or when multiple monitors are attached.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643704