Bug 179301 – Xfce 4.4.1: add UI to tweak xft dpi for people with broken drivers

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Waters 2007-05-21 07:55:24 UTC]

Upgrading from 4.4.0 to 4.4.1 get the screen resolution wrong.
The problem seems to be http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3164

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Upgrade to 4.4.1
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Actual Results:  
Screen resolution on my laptop differs from that set in xorg.conf

Expected Results:  
Screen resolution matches that set in xorg.conf

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-21 08:07:51 UTC]

Hmmm, this bug should have been filed to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ instead to get things fixed properly, as said in http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3164#c1

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-05-23 15:03:50 UTC]

Fixed in -r2, thanks for reporting.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-25 08:56:51 UTC]

Uh; I get *huge* fonts after this 'fix', definitely wrong. 9pt fonts which I have set in UI preferences look like ~13pt ones.

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-05-25 10:15:31 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Uh; I get *huge* fonts after this 'fix', definitely wrong. 9pt fonts which I
> have set in UI preferences look like ~13pt ones.

If your display size calculation (broken x11 drivers) doesn't give DPI it defaults to 96 now after this fix, which is same upstream did. What do you expect me to do? Revert it back against upstream.. and then revert again when someone else decides open bug like this or reopen this one?

[Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-05-25 12:34:52 UTC]

-r2 is gone from tree since it clearly breaks for everyone, intel, nv, nvidia, users with non-default dpi set to ~96.

upstream trunk, branch for 4.4.2 is broken.

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-05-26 10:30:08 UTC]

xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.1-r1 which is still p.masked is committed to address this issue.