[kde-linux] Re: KDE on high resolution monitor

[yahoo-pier_andreit]

Il 08/12/2010 11:31, Duncan ha scritto:
> yahoo-pier_andreit posted on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:04:55 +0100 as excerpted:
> 
>> I have a dell latitude with intel i7 nvidia NVS 3100M and screen
>> 1920x1080 resolution, using KDE 4.4 stable suse, well with high
>> resolution monitor I found some problem usng kde:
> 

> The alternative way to set it is in your xorg settings, xorg.conf, or for 
> newer xorg-server (1.8+, IIRC), a file in xorg.conf.d.  The setting used 
> for this is the DisplaySize setting in the appropriate Monitor section.  
> See the xorg.conf manpage.  For quite some time I had to set this manually 
> here, not because I wanted to change the natural setting, but because xorg 
> screwed up the calculation when multiple monitors were in use, and before 
> that, because it didn't detect them well or at all so it'd fall back to 
> defaults if the monitor size wasn't set, and the defaults had a way of 
> changing between versions!  Those bugs are now fixed and I no longer have 
> that setting, but I still know how and where to set it, should I need to.

> configuration of all or part via xorg.conf may
> be ignored. It may be necessary to put what _should_ work in xorg.conf
into
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf instead. Those using proprietary NVidia
drivers
> should try the NVidia configuration tool first.

nvidia configuration tool seems to have anything about dpi :-)

in the man xorg.conf I found this:
DisplaySize width height
 This optional entry gives the width and height, in millimetres, of the
picture area of the monitor. If given this is used to calculate the
horizontal and vertical pitch (DPI) of the screen.

do you intend this?

I found this data on my xorg:
xorg-x11-server is 7.5_1.8.0-10.3.1 by opensuse repo
xorg.conf ther isn't
xorg.conf.d there is in /etc/X11
the contents are:
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-mouse.conf
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-synaptics.conf
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-wacom.conf
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-screen.conf
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-vmmouse.conf
file:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keytable.conf

the content of 50-monitor.conf is:
Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "Default Monitor"

  ## If your monitor doesn't support DDC you may override the
  ## defaults here
  #HorizSync 28-85
  #VertRefresh 50-100

  ## Add your mode lines here, use e.g the cvt tool

EndSection

the content of Xorg.0.log is big, I filtered searching dpi, this seems
related to:
[    26.018] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
[    26.018] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select"
[    26.018] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1920 x
1080
[    26.230] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (143, 144); computed from
"UseEdidDpi" X config
[    26.230] (--) NVIDIA(0):     option
[    26.230] (==) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.

if you want to see other just ask me :-)