Re: GTK-2.0/Pango scaling fonts based on screen resolution/dpy

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Olivier Fourdan <fourdan xfce org> writes:

> (resent 'cuz initially posted on the wrong list!)
> --
> Hi all,
>
> Speaking about runtime options (although it could be seen as a user
> problem rather than a developper problem, in fact, it is a developper
> problem -for me at least :) -), pango with Xft backend seem to scale
> fonts based on screen resolution/dpy which could lead to strange results
> sometimes (e.g. fixed window manager title height)
>
> Is that behaviour avoidable (easily :) ) from the gtk+ application ?

It's a system feature, not an application feature. It would be bad
form  for a single application to deviate from the system 
configuration.

To specify a fixed Xft resolution, set the Xft.dpi X resource to the
desired value - Red Hat 8 uses a fixed esolution of 96.

Regards,
                                        Owen