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Re: KDE vs gnome vs openoffice screen resolution!
by Jinesh Choksi on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @12:51

DPI is an X Window System property and has nothing to do with KDE!

To setup the DPI to be precisely 96x96 dpi each time, you need to add a line into you xorg.conf

Locate Section "Monitor" and add the following lines before EndSection:

# DisplaySize 270 203 # 1024x768 96dpi
# DisplaySize 338 254 # 1280x960 96dpi
# DisplaySize 338 270 # 1280x1024 96dpi
# DisplaySize 370 277 # 1400x1050 96dpi
# DisplaySize 423 370 # 1600x1400 96dpi

Uncomment the resolution you normally use...

To get MS fonts working properly...try looking at the following guide:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20976&highlight=cleartype

It's Ubuntu(Debian) specific but the instructions for the DPI stuff can be carried out on any linux box.

By the way, if you're going to use the Virtual or Viewport keywords then the above DisplaySize will not take effect. Also, for Nvidia graphics card, there is an Option called "UseEdidDpi" which needs to be set to "FALSE" for your DisplaySize option to to take effect.

For more info see:
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8174/README/32bit_html/appendix-y.html

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Re: KDE vs gnome vs openoffice screen resolution!
by Pritesh Chauhan on Sunday 05/Mar/2006, @16:15

Hey man,

Long time!

Email me!

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