Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:10:44PM -0400, Martin McCourt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have this problem where all my fonts look really small and actually >> are pretty hard to look at. See this: >> http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=badaavg8.jpg > > Possibly a red herring (and nothing to do with aliasing), but on > exactly one of my machines it somehow thinks that 75dpi is a > sensible size for a 20" 1600x1200 display (all the others find, > and use, 100dpi). For my own desktop, adding the following to > ~/.Xresources fixes e.g. the toolbar in icewm, and font size in > urxvt. > > Xft.dpi: 100 > > Note that doesn't cover all the cases - I use gdm, so that still > presents the login dialog with a tiny font, but I can live with that > as long as there is only me using it.
A better solution is to specify the display size in Xorg.conf. This way, it will apply to all programs, not only Xft. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
