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[Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx>]

This change was introduced for all RandR 1.2 drivers by
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=fff00df .  (Notably,
the nvidia binary driver is not affected.)

GNOME does also force X back to 96 DPI when gnome-settings-daemon starts
up (bug 157398, bug 246718).  It’s even more annoying about it, too:
although you can configure the GNOME DPI to any value with gnome-
appearance-properties, the X screen itself is forced to 96 DPI
regardless of the GNOME value.

So now, in order to use my 130 DPI screen without squinting at tiny
fonts, I need to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf that configures
DisplaySize, _and_ configure the following script to start on login with
gnome-session-properties:

#!/bin/sh
xrandr --fbmm $(xrandr -q | sed -n 's/^.* connected .* \([0-9]*\)mm x \([0-9]*\)mm.*$/\1x\2/p')
gconftool-2 --unset /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi


** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Ignores physical display size and calculates based on 96DPI
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589485
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