Display Preferences

DPI

These are the monitor settings, in particular the DPI the desktop uses to size type. An X display has several numbers that all answer to the name DPI, and they disagree. One is pixels divided by the millimeters the driver claims. Another is the Xft resource that actually scales a point size.

This panel sets the resource that Xft uses. The display server is still X11. The panel does not install a new display server in order to get a sharper font.

Monitor settings. This panel sets the Xft DPI resource, which is the number that actually scales a point size.

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