Hi Felix!

Anno domini 2019 Sat, 9 Feb 21:52:33 -0500
 Felix Miata scripsit:
> Dr. Nikolaus Klepp composed on 2019-02-10 00:58 (UTC+0100):
> 
> > Anno domini 2019 Sat, 9 Feb 18:49:48 -0500 Felix Miata composed:
> >> Dr. Nikolaus Klepp composed on 2019-02-10 00:36 (UTC+0100):
> 
> >>> I just upgraded my devuan boxes to beowulf. Most things work as expected, but there are 2 issues that just kill my nerves:
> 
> >>> 2) DPI settings are not correct anymore: I have dpi set to 120 via tde controlcenter. After the upgrade gtk2-applications still use 120 dpi, but TDE ignores the dpi-settings, it uses 96. Now this is quite irritating.
> 
> >> Where do you see it report 96?
> 
> > Nowhere. I just mesured the ratio from fonts in applications that did not change (e.g. menu in libreoffice) and compare it to fonts in applications that changed (e.g. menu in kmail): Result is that kmail fonts are ~ 20% smaller than before --> ~ 96 dpi.
> 
> Which Kmail, TDE's, or KDE5's?

I only have TDE running, so it's TDE kmail (and konqueror, ...) :-) 

> Which apps besides Kmail have small fonts? Are any of them using QT5, GTK3 or GTK4?
It affects all TDE applications. 
Firefox is also affected (see below).
geany and libreoffice are OK.
gimp 2.10 is OK (besides the fact that some genius broke the layers tab).

> Do any of these apps allow to choose font family and/or font size directly, rather than inheriting
> from DE settings? *buntu*fonts and *fonts*buntu* tend to render a physical size or two less than
> the majority of other families of identical nominal size. DPI typically plays a role in whether or
> not this happens or for which nominal sizes. http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html
> among others can be used to notice this. e.g.:
> 
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/ubuntuAREsmaller120.jpg

the image you linked shows 120dpi and it is 120dpi on my screen, too (1in is 1 in). That's what it used to look like befor upgrade. Now it says instead of 120 dpi "unknown" and the test-square of 1in is not 2.54mm but 2.12mm or 100dpi (giving some error in my previouse measurement this could be the correct value).

I can adjust firefox to the correct DPI if I set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx=1.22 - but I do not know what that breaks :-)

> Shows Ubuntu Mono is same size as Inconsolata at 12pt, but larger at 10pt, yet it's smaller than
> most others whether at 10pt or 12pt.
> 
> The differences are different at 96 DPI:
> 
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fnt/ubuntuAREsmaller096.jpg
> 
> Note in these images that the only font requested by the page that is not installed is Courier.

Nik



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