Re: default X font sizes

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney <weierophinney@griffdog.net>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:09:58AM +1200, John Batistic wrote:
> I have just completed a Woody install to XFS file system.
> 
> My default X font sizes are way too big.
> /etc/X11/fs/config used to control font size, but now has no effect.
> Renaming fs makes no difference, so default font size is under the
> control of something else.
> 
> Where will I find the default X font size setting?
In your /etc/X11/XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if you're using XFree86
4.x). You need to look for the lines starting with "FontPath", and
change the order of them. Very likely, you'll see the following two
lines somewhere in there:

    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"

Make sure they're in that order -- this way the smaller versions of the
fonts -- 75dpi -- are loaded first. If you still have problems, try
commenting out the 100dpi line and see if that helps.

--Matthew