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  1. Bug #589485
  2. Comment #47

Comment 47 for bug 589485

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In , New-face-in-hell (new-face-in-hell) wrote :

(In reply to comment #45)
> (In reply to comment #44)
> > (In reply to comment #43)
> > > It's possible your distro sets Xft.dpi at 96, which typically will override
> > > Xorg's setting in at least some apps. If 'xrdb -query | grep dpi' produces 96,
> > > you need to find out where that's getting set and disable it, or change it to
> > > 135.

Uh, sorry, have forgotten to post the result...
xrdb -query gives no output.

I've just set "Xft.dpi: 135" in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources with the result that the fonts and the mouse pointer in xdm are bigger now so it seems that xdm has now the right DPI setting.
As soon as I log in to e16 the mouse pointer gets smaller and xdpyinfo still reports the wrong DPI setting.
Setting Xft.dpi in ~/.Xresources or /etc/X11/Xresources according to http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html has no effect, xrdb -query still gives no output.