Comment 13 for bug 589485
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(In reply to comment #6)
> The 'screen size' as reported in the core protocol now respects the DPI value
> given by the user or config file and ignores the actual monitor DPI of any
> connected monitor.
I've read the rest of the comments here and I'm still not sure I understand. What DPI value given by the user or config file? I haven't specified DPI *anywhere* (my xorg.conf file is empty except for 4 lines to set the video driver to 'nouveau' or 'nvidia'). And yet, xdpyinfo reports 96dpi, when the real resolution is 112dpi.
This sounds incredibly inconsistent and not very useful. You're saying I'm forced to either override Xfce's detected DPI (which will only "unbreak" GTK apps, and nothing else), or add entries to my xorg.conf file to set the display size? That makes no logical sense to me. *Please* tell me I'm misunderstanding something here.
(I suspect I may be: when I use nouveau, I get an incorrect DPI from xdpyinfo, even if the logging in Xorg.0.log prints out the correct display size and DPI. When I use nvidia, my DPI is correct everywhere.)