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linux nvidia fonts session

Fonts in desktop environment always change across reboots On my Archlinux, I installed proprietary nVidia drivers because of the presence of an nVidia card. Unfortunately, each time I reboot, I have to set the fonts through the desktop environment in order to have the correct font size. It's a DPI detection problem According to some community posts, it has to do with DPI detection http://www.techytalk.info/lubuntu-change-fonts-dpi-when-using-proprietary-nvidia-driver/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/installed-nvidia-now-everything-is-huge-853657/ https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2201820 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1310316 Hard seting the DPI The solution I choosed is to edit "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and add Option "DPI" "96 x 96" in the "Monitor" section. The "Monitor" section becomes: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorN