Lets Drop Old Monitors

[David Lang]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Clay Weber wrote:

> I have yet to see a distro that sets a good scale or dpi automagically.

I will argue that it's impossible to set the scale/dpi automagically.

is this HD screen a 24" screen 18" from your face, a 5" screen 3" from your face 
(a VR headset), a 100" screen 20' from your face, etc?

knowing the screen resolution, and screen physical size isn't enough, you have 
to know the viewing distance to get something that's close to appropriate (and 
from there allow additional tuning of the value for personal preference)

David Lang