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[Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes. As mentioned it is a single patch to apply, that has been available
since the very first day the bug was reported, actually 8 years ago (I
was wrong when I said 6). Incidentally, I was the second reporter of
this issue, with Bug #572943, the second lowest numbered duplicate, one
month before the bug that is hosting this discussion was opened.  I
started saying that the bug needed a higher priority in 2013. So,
please, do not enter a discussion with a long history just to label
things and be aggressive, rather start asking why that single patch
remained not applied for 6-8 years.

Just to recall some history, the issue began with the use of EDID
information for DPI being *intentionally* removed upstream, for many
reasons including adhering to what other OSs used to do at that time.
When some other people and I started insisting to have the feature
restored at least in ubuntu, there was resistance. Resistance was
partially justified (e.g. on the upstream lists, see
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 "CLOSED" as "NOT A
BUG") by the consideration that merely reintroducing the feature was not
enough and that a better vision for managing the growing variety of
display types (including hi-dpi) was needed. This is why considerations
on the approaches taken by other OSs and on long term desiderata started
being discussed alongside the short term solutions.

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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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