Re: fonts too large
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com> writes:
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 20:37, David Zelinsky wrote:
>> I recently upgraded to woody (actually I ended up doing a clean
>> install, for reasons I won't get into), and now most of the fonts in
>> application windows are way too large. Examples include: menus,
>> dialog boxes and input fields in netscape, mozilla, dillo and
>> acroread, to name a few. (The font preference for netscape et al only
>> affect the document fonts, not the menus and toolbars.)
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to change this? I'm using xfs (tried changing
>> the default-point-size in /etc/X11/fs/config but it had no effect).
>> I've been using fvwm started by gdm, but it doesn't seem to matter
>> which window manager or desktop I use.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> David Zelinsky
>
> from /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/README.Debian-upgrade.gz:
>
> FONT AND DPI (DOTS-PER-INCH) SETTINGS SET TO 100DPI BY DEFAULT:
>
> You should be aware that, by default, xdm and xinit (and thus startx) start
> the X server using the "-dpi 100" argument, which forces the X server to
> treat the display as having 100 dots per inch. Furthermore, xfs is
> configured to serve fonts with a preference for 100dpi versions over 75dpi
> version if a font request could be satisfied by either, and dexconf, the
> Debian X Configurator, writes XFree86 server configuration files with a
> preference for the 100dpi font directory over the 75dpi directory.
>
> This particularly affects the visible font size. Another common default is 75
> dpi; some font rasterizers do not deal well with dpi settings other than 75 or
> 100.
But note that, as stated in xfonts-100dpi description field,
"xfonts-100dpi may be more suitable for large monitors and/or large
screen resolutions (over 1024x768)."
In that case, you'd be better off just changing the font size manually
(through Gnome/KDE's control center, or whatever).
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