From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:02:30 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Treat everything up to 120 dpi as 96 dpi (Thanks jefvel)
X-Git-Tag: 4.9~56
X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?p=i3%2Fi3;a=commitdiff_plain;h=33d1d5d3c61a2136eb4b42ffd29870fd68d2d766

Treat everything up to 120 dpi as 96 dpi (Thanks jefvel)

See the comment in the source for rationale.
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diff --git a/libi3/dpi.c b/libi3/dpi.c
index 090a6560..37d5b215 100644
--- a/libi3/dpi.c
+++ b/libi3/dpi.c
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+/*
+ * vim:ts=4:sw=4:expandtab
+ *
+ * i3 - an improved dynamic tiling window manager
+ * © 2009-2014 Michael Stapelberg and contributors (see also: LICENSE)
+ *
+ */
 #include "libi3.h"
 #include <math.h>
 
@@ -12,5 +19,13 @@ extern xcb_screen_t *root_screen;
 int logical_px(const int logical) {
     const int dpi = (double)root_screen->height_in_pixels * 25.4 /
                     (double)root_screen->height_in_millimeters;
+    /* There are many misconfigurations out there, i.e. systems with screens
+     * whose dpi is in fact higher than 96 dpi, but not significantly higher,
+     * so software was never adapted. We could tell people to reconfigure their
+     * systems to 96 dpi in order to get the behavior they expect/are used to,
+     * but since we can easily detect this case in code, let’s do it for them.
+     */
+    if ((dpi / 96.0) < 1.25)
+        return logical;
     return ceil((dpi / 96.0) * logical);
 }