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[Václav Šmilauer <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

@Sergio, sorry but your comments are OT. Different resolutions for
different screens are not supported on the toolkit level; a window can
be on both screens at once and such, and it is beyond the scope of this
bug. Viewing distance again has nothing to do with this bug; DPI does
not depend on the viewing distance, it simply expresses physical
dimensions (lengths) of one pixel; length does not depend on distance (I
am a physicist, I know that one for sure). Of course for guessing
comfortable font size for reading, viewing distance is important, but
that is an entirely different problem, although it actually required a
valid value of DPI.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589485

Title:
  Ignores physical display size and calculates based on 96DPI

Status in X.Org X server:
  Confirmed
Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The X server, starting with 1.7, ignores the physical size reported by
  the EDID or in xorg.conf and calculates it based on screen resolution
  and a DPI of 96.

  This is rather annoying for users of high DPI screens.

  GNOME and KDE (used?) to set 96 DPI by default in their settings.  We
  should check whether they still do, and if so let them handle this; I
  don't think X should be handling this.

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