Re: Font Sizes In Fluxbox
Incoming from John Lowell:
>
> Anyway I now think I have a clue as to whats going on here. The dpi on the
> Debian install is a bit generous compared to my Gentoo install. For Debian,
> xdpyinfo | grep 'resolution' gives output 100x100 whereas with Gentoo the
fwiw, that's what it says here too. I'd forgotten about xdpyinfo.
> same command produces 61x63, a sizeable difference by any measure. I'm going
> to edit ~/.xinitrc to read as follows
>
> xrdb --merge - <<EOF
> Xft.dpi: 72
> Xft.hinting: 1
> Xft.hintstyle: medium
> EOF
> fluxbox
That's one way. You could just stuff those into your ~/.Xresources or
~/.Xdefaults, then "xrdb -merge .Xresources"
> to see if that improves things. The dpi setting typically moves up or down
> in steps of 12, i.e. 60, 72, 84, 96 etc. If this setting improves things -
> which I think it will - I'll let you know. You may want to return your
> ~/.fluxbox/init file to default and use an approach like this one if it
Actually, I hadn't changed that. I'd only swapped XF86Config-4 font
line positions.
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