diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2ace1cb69..aa2d352cd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Unreleased
 
+- On X11, fix sanity check which checks that a monitor's reported width and height (in millimeters) are non-zero when calculating the DPI factor.
+
 # Version 0.19.1 (2019-04-08)
 
 - On Wayland, added a `get_wayland_display` function to `EventsLoopExt`.
diff --git a/src/platform/linux/x11/util/randr.rs b/src/platform/linux/x11/util/randr.rs
index 5054dbdb0..2d7e14644 100644
--- a/src/platform/linux/x11/util/randr.rs
+++ b/src/platform/linux/x11/util/randr.rs
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub fn calc_dpi_factor(
     }
 
     // See http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/728 for more information.
-    if width_mm == 0 || width_mm == 0 {
+    if width_mm == 0 || height_mm == 0 {
         warn!("XRandR reported that the display's 0mm in size, which is certifiably insane");
         return 1.0;
     }