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[ILUG] Tip of the day - fonts and XFree

[ILUG] Tip of the day - fonts and XFree

David Murphy drjolt+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie
Fri Mar 10 11:48:00 GMT 2000


Quoting <Pine.WNT.4.21.0003101040390.195-100000 at 8938cs820195.ied.cpqcorp.net>
by Paul Jakma <paul.jakma at compaq.com>:

> Secondly, tell X what dpi your monitor is, as most PC hardware can't
> tell the X server,

[...]

> add -dpi 100 to the line that describes your X server

Has anyone else found that while most things work fine, and are much
more legible, some apps screw up with this? xmysqladmin is one that
springs to mind.

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