Re: Wrong DPI setting on 13" MacBook
Re: Wrong DPI setting on 13" MacBook
- Subject: Re: Wrong DPI setting on 13" MacBook
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:58:43 +0100 (CET)
+ Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>:
> On 2009 Jan 27, at 11:32, Marco De Vitis wrote:
> > Il giorno 27/gen/09, alle ore 12:01, Zulli, Louis P ha scritto:
> >> For Gimp, maybe try Edit-->Preferences-->Themes (if this exists).
> >
> > the size setting in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 is used ONLY if no "dpi" value is set
> > in org.x.X11.plist. (This applies to Inkscape only, because Gimp never
> > uses it anyway)
> > If I set a dpi value in the plist file, the size value in .gtkrc-2.0
> > is ignored.
> >
> > Isn't it strange? Shouldn't them be independent settings?
>
> That will be a toolkit problem; Inkscape is apparently querying the
> X11 display, and using .gtkrc-2.0 as a fallback.
But, but ... even if you don't set the resolution in org.x.X11, the
server will still report *some* resolution (96 dpi AFAIK; check it
using xdpyinfo | grep resolution). How does inkscape learn that the X
server figured that out on its own, rather than being told on the
command line?
- Harald
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