How to change the display's dots per inch setting

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sat May 12 19:38:35 UTC 2012


Tom Horsley writes:

> On Sat, 12 May 2012 14:49:49 -0400
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> > There should be an easy way I can tell Xorg what my real DPI is, so
> > everything looks sane.
>
> Welcome to the twilight zone:

Google already showed me the way.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451562
>
> The simplest fix is to switch to KDM for your login manager and
> add the -dpi 140 option to the X server args.

Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to flush  
their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else.

Thanks for confirming that my Google skills have NOT deterioriated.


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