Ekkehard Kraemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm using XFree 4.0.1 (the current packages on a woody system) with a > Voodoo3 2000 in 1280x1024 mode under HELIX Gnome. Everything was just > installed with apt-get, no special fiddling has occured. > > This is my situation with the fonts:
AFAIK, XF4 defaults to 100dpi, while XF3 defaulted to 75dpi, so fonts specified using point sizes (1 point = 1/72 in) will be bigger. Some applications specify fonts using pixel sizes, so they will stay the same. Start X with the "-dpi 75" option. IIRC, if you use the "startx" command, you call it as startx -- -dpi 75 If you use xdm, gdm, or kdm (or something else like that), you'll need to tell it to launch the X server with that option. For xdm, edit the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file, and add "-dpi 75" to the end of the line that begins ":0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X11". I'm not sure about the others. Also, edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, and change the order of the FontPath lines so that the 75dpi directories come before the 100dpi directories. You may have to change /etc/X11/fs/config and do the same thing, and then restart xfs (by doing /etc/init.d/xfs restart) too. I just disabled xfs altogether, since I don't need it anyways. Hubert
