Re: Font point sizes and X resolutions?
On Wed Mar 21 22:13:32 2001 Richard C. Cobbe wrote...
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>Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write:
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>> How can I set up X properly so that the fonts are displayed in the proper
>> (eg 1/72 inch per point) size?
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>Can't do 72dpi, but you can do 75dpi, which is close enough. Take a look
>at your font path (in /etc/X11/XF86Config by default on potato; this may
>well be different for woody/sid). Make sure the 75dpi entries precede the
>100dpi entries, then restart X.
Maybe I did not make my question clear, or perhaps I'm just to dumb to
understand the answer.
Let me elaborate. As I increase the resolutin (more pixels) on the screen, the
font's just get smaller. I don't think this is the way it should work. I
suspect I have something configured wrong. At one point in time, during the
install I was asked what size monitor I had, I answered 17". Well now I have a
19" atached to this system. How do I tell X what the dimensions of the screen
are, so that it can display say a 12 point font as something aproaching a real
12 point typeface, instead of some unreadably small size?
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