Fix Your Desktop

Starting with OS X 10.5, Apple made major changes to the included Xserver, which is now started automatically by launchd when required, and based on the Xorg server rather than on Xfree86, as with 10.4 and below.

In Tiger, it was possible specify the DPI while starting the Xserver, but for obvious reasons, that is no longer possible. I was unable to find any workable solution for microscopic fonts, until I read a thread on MacOS Forge that stated that the launchd auto-starter included in their community-supported Xserver releases actually just runs the startx command.

This is great news, because startx is a script that can be edited. So I installed the latest packaged build available from their website, then opened a Terminal window, and pulled up the startx script in a text editor: sudo nan...

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