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--- Comment #18 from Matthias Hopf <mhopf@xxxxxxxxxx>  2008-04-01 08:30:04 MST 
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(In reply to comment #17 from Egbert Eich)
> If we had a way to pass the different viewport sizes and resolutions to the
> client the client toolkit could do something much smarter already. (Maybe
> XRandR already allows for this).

Not to my knowledge. Also, xrandr has a --dpi switch, but that (again) is
global and not per head.

> For dump applications this calculation could be done in the server and the 
> root
> window size could be whacked to match this resolution (as it is done today).

Again, then DPI calculations break, I would consider that a no-go.

> Unfortunately noone has caught on to this. The reason may be that the people
> I've talked to were all developers - those people have a different usage
> pattern: they clutter up their screens with as many terminal windows as
> possible and read them from a close distance.

And use fixed as font. Or 8x13 or whatever.


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