How to find and change the screen DPI

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Published on 2012-10-08T14:53:08Z Indexed on 2012/10/08 15:52 UTC
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I am trying to find and then change the screen DPI in 12.04 and 12.10 but I can't seem to find any app or config file that can do this. Is there any app or conf file that I can use to change my screen dpi?

Note that this is for 12.04+ so the following will not work:

How do I change the font DPI settings?

How to change the screen DPI in 11.10?

Is it possible to change font DPI in 11.04?

They are basically changing the font size, not the actual screen DPI

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