Re: X Font size

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 02:52 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Jeff Elkins (<jeffelkins@earthlink.net>) wrote:
> > I recently started using 1280x1024 resolution for a new monitor. It's
> > great for almost everything, except wxpython apps and other gtk apps.
> > KDE apps and firefox work great, but the problem apps fonts are so
> > tiny as to be near-unreadable.
> >
> > In /etc/X11/fs/config I changed:
> >
> > #default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75
> > default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
> >
> > w/o effect.
> >
> > Is this an X DPI issue and how can I fix this? I'm running sid.
>
> If you use the transcoded fonts packages (e.g. euro support), install
> xfonts.*-transcoded. Install gtk-theme-switch and run switch to set the
> default font and font size for GTK1 apps. Run xdpyinfo to check if X
> detected the size of your screen correctly. If it didn't, set the
> "DisplaySize" option in your XFree configuration file's Monitor section.
>
> best regards
>         Andreas Janssen

Thanks, but if I correctly applied these fixes, it didn't work.

I installed the transcoded fonts (although I'm not in Europe), 
gtk-theme-switch and ran xdpyinfo (which looks fine).

Switch allows me to select a font, but it has no effect on the apps. 

Jeff