Re: X Font size

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Thursday 23 June 2005 09:23 am, Nikolai Hlubek wrote:
> Jeff Elkins wrote:
> > I recently started using 1280x1024 resolution for a new monitor. It's
> > great for almost everything, except wxpython apps and other gtk apps. KDE
> > apps and firefox work great, but the problem apps fonts are so tiny as to
> > be near-unreadable.
> >
> > In /etc/X11/fs/config I changed:
> >
> > #default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75
> > default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
> >
> > w/o effect.
> >
> > Is this an X DPI issue and how can I fix this? I'm running sid.
>
> [...]
>
> Hi Jeff
>
> The font size shouldn't be changed by changing the dpi as dpi means
> dots per inch and that is fixed by your monitor. Instead you should
> change the font size through kcontrol and gnome-control-center.
> I'll just copy the text out of my groups wiki, it should cover your
> problem exactly:
>
>
> KDE and GNOME integration
> =========================
>
> When working with KDE and GNOME applications and not running a complete
> GNOME or KDE session (not using "kwn" or "metacity" as windowmanager)
> you have the problem, that many subsystems (i.e. the fonts) are not loaded.
>
> Here is the solution
>
> Configure kde-apps through kcontrol and gnome with gnome-control-center
> then put the following lines in your local .xsession creating it if it
> doesn't exist:
>
> kdeinit &
> gnome-settings-daemon &
>
> This ensures that both subsystems will be loaded.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Nikolai

Thanks!  gnome-settings-daemon fixed me right up :)

Jeff