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Month: June 2018

Re: Display Density Issues (was: I may have spoken...)

From: J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@...>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:06:50 -0500
On 2018-06-28 20:39:43 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> >> i was able to kind of force some things by finding my way to trinity
> >> control center and setting it to 120dpi (and, in another test, 96dpi),
> >> which has made everything very tiny indeed.
> >>
> >> i ran xdpyinfo | -B2 resolution and got surprising results:
>
> For info, there is already plan for R14.1.0 to add config option for DPI to
> TDE Control Center, letting the user select the preferred DPI within a
> range.
> http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2879
	Just to assuage my curiosity, do these DPI setting interact in any way with 
the monitor scan frequencies (and I don't even know if that's irrelevant now 
that CRTs are history) so that an out-of-range DPI could cause hardware 
damage?

Leslie