Re: Reducing font size in X

[Jason Chambers <jason.chambers@ntlworld.com>]

Crispin Wellington wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 02:59, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
>
> > Dear group - I have just installed a Sid box supposed to run only X and
> > Galeon. I found that the default install leves me with rather large
> > fonts for the applications.
> > I recall having solved this before by exchanging the FontPath for 100dpi
> > and 75dpi in XF86Config. Now I have tried this again without success.
> > I have noticed a new FontPath on top of the config file:
> >
> >  FontPath "unix/:7100"

That'll be the X-font server.

Changing the 100dpi/75dpi fonts around is the answer but as you're 
running an x-font server, you need to edit it's configuration file to do 
that.

The config file is /etc/X11/fs/config and you need to look for a line 
starting 'catalogue =' - this is a list of font paths in the order it 
uses them. Remember to restart the font server (xfs) as well as X itself.

> > I suppose this has something to do with it (in fact I am sure, if I
> > comment that line, things work as expected).
> >
> > Can someone point me to the mechanism for changing the font size here?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
>
> You could list all you fonts in the font path, both the 75 dpi and 100
> dpi ones. Then change the dpi setting of the xserver by editing
> /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and altering the value after the -dpi flag.
>
> Don't know if that will solve your problem. Just an idea.
>
> Crispin Wellington


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Jason Chambers (jason.chambers@ntlworld.com)
Leicester, England




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