Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:32:06PM -0300, Fernando Canizo wrote Seems you have found your solution to this problem, but i want to add this, maybe unrelated to your problem, but yet usefull: In your original solution you have two X servers running at different resolutions, you don't need to

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Naujokas schreef: On Mon, 2005-15-08 at 22:09 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: The one part I haven't figured out is xterm. If I {ALT-RIGHT-CLICK} in an xterm, I get a menu that will alter font sizes. How do I change the default font size that xterm comes up with? You can control xterm

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running Gentoo (of course) with Blackbox as my WM. I got a digital camera several weeks ago, and am now playing around with 2590 x 1920 sized images in Gimp. My monitor can't go quite *THAT* high, but 1600 x 1200 (for that matter 1560 x 1170) is large enough for Gimp

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread George Garvey
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:28:44PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Although it seems like your X dpi setting should match the physical resolution of your monitor, it can be used to tweak font sizes. There is an X -dpi command line setting documented in the Xserver manpage and a DisplaySize

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Zac Medico
George Garvey wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:28:44PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Although it seems like your X dpi setting should match the physical resolution of your monitor, it can be used to tweak font sizes. There is an X -dpi command line setting documented in the Xserver manpage and a

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread George Garvey
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:58:26AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: I know of a couple text size related extensions for firefox. http://www.splintered.co.uk/extensions/ https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefoxcategory=Miscellaneousnumpg=10id=55 Thanks for that. Turns

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:24:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote The question is precisely whether his X dpi matches his physical dpi. I used to have a similar problem when I tried to run 1280 x 1024 on my laptop and get itsy-bitsy fonts. Then I took a ruler and measured the monitor and set the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Tom Naujokas
On Mon, 2005-15-08 at 22:09 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: The one part I haven't figured out is xterm. If I {ALT-RIGHT-CLICK} in an xterm, I get a menu that will alter font sizes. How do I change the default font size that xterm comes up with? You can control xterm fonts with either command