Re: X Font size

[Nikolai Hlubek <nikolai.hlubek@mailbox.tu-dresden.de>]

Jeff Elkins 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.
[...]

Hi Jeff

The font size shouldn't be changed by changing the dpi as dpi means
dots per inch and that is fixed by your monitor. Instead you should
change the font size through kcontrol and gnome-control-center.
I'll just copy the text out of my groups wiki, it should cover your
problem exactly:


KDE and GNOME integration
=========================

When working with KDE and GNOME applications and not running a complete
GNOME or KDE session (not using "kwn" or "metacity" as windowmanager)
you have the problem, that many subsystems (i.e. the fonts) are not loaded.

Here is the solution

Configure kde-apps through kcontrol and gnome with gnome-control-center
then put the following lines in your local .xsession creating it if it
doesn't exist:

kdeinit &
gnome-settings-daemon &

This ensures that both subsystems will be loaded.


Best regards,
Nikolai

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