Comment 39 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.
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> The real monitor size is reported through the RandR extension if you really
> need to know the physical size of the display.
>
> This is intentional and follows the practice seen in many other desktop
> environments where the logical DPI of the screen is used as an application and
> font scaling factor.
Yes, and the default font size should be set to match the screen resolution, as is the practice in many other desktop environments.
Note that even on Windows that completely ignore actual screen DPI the system integrators do preset the font scaling factor to approximately match the actual DPI.
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> If you don't like it, you're welcome to configure the X server to taste; we
> haven't removed any of those knobs. And, you can even use xrandr to change
You just set them intentionally to the wrong value. Thank you very much.