X11 apps failing after upgrade

[Jon TURNEY]

James Ferguson wrote:
>> So perhaps what you need to do is uninstall the dpi100 font package?
> 
> Just to confirm - I removed the 100dpi fonts, and now my display is back
> to what it was before the recent major X update.
> 
> Unfortunately, Cygwin thinks other installs are dependent on the the
> 100dpi fonts, so on any update I'll have to manually force it not to
> reinstall them, but at least things look ok again.

Hmm.. which package(s) is this?

> Kind of odd, since my XP settings are 100dpi, and in reality my screen
> is more like 120dpi.

'dpi' in the context used by XP and the X server is really just a measure of 
how big you'd like your fonts.  Making the fonts on a screen 'actual-size' (so 
72 point fonts are 1 inch high) isn't very useful (as people sit at different 
distances from the screen, have different visual acuities, and want to be able 
to read).  For printed pages, of course it's different.

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