Sorry, but what kind of fucked up non-solution is it to have "Xft.dpi: 96" in /etc/X11/Xresources? It causes text to appear in the wrong size, unless one happens to have a display that actually has that resolution.
Put the string "Xft.dpi: 96" (with quotes) into google and educate yourself.
With no Xft.dpi resource set, I create an editor window with the text "Mlp" in Liberation Mono 48 pt. I then set Xft.dpi: 96 and create a second editor window with the same contents. The text in the second window is visibly larger than the text in the first window. Next, I create a screenshot of both windows side by side. In the image I measure the distance between the top level of the "l" and the bottom level of the "p" in pixels. First: 54 px. Second: 60 px. My screen is 1024 px vertical, with a physical height of 302 mm. (Which the X server correctly reports as 86 dpi, btw.) By applying the rule of three I calculate the approximate size of the fonts in mm: First: 15.936 mm. Second: 17.695 mm. For reference, 1 pt is about 0.3527 mm, so a 48 pt font has a body height of about 16.9296 mm. The distance between the level of the top of the "l" and the level of the bottom of the "p" can only be smaller than or equal to the body height of the font. As you can see, with Xft.dpi: 96 set, for a font that is supposed to be 48 pt it is in fact larger than 48 pt. How is any googling going to help with that?
I also noticed wrong font sizes in F8. Will go and check wether it can be fixed by removing the Xft.dpi resource.
Having check both my laptop (FC4) and desktop (FC6), both are using fixed Xft.dpi 96. I always used MiscFixed 10pt as my gnome-terminal font. Using F8, this leads to the usual font rendering on my laptop (1400x1050 14" TFT), but not on my desktop (1600x1200 20" TFT). On my desktop, I have to use MiscFixed 9.5pt to get the usual font rendering. Removing the fixed Xft.dpi 96 setting does not help. So I do have some F8 font size artifacts, but they don't seem to be related to the Xft.dpi setting.
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I can still replicate my issue regarding font size in Fedora 10, still need to use 9.5pt. And there is still the hard-coded mismatch of DPI value in /etc/X11/Xresources: [dr@trinity ~]$ cat /etc/X11/Xresources | grep ^Xft.dpi Xft.dpi: 96 [dr@trinity ~]$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution resolution: 99x98 dots per inch [dr@trinity ~]$ xrdb -query | grep dpi Xft.dpi: 98.443359375
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