On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:44:18AM +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote:
> Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > but the font is still too small for me and I would like to make it
> > larger but I don't know what font sizes are available.
> > Could anyone have any pointers on this?
> 
> look in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ for fonts.alias files.
I found fonts.alias in 
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
> 
> but if 10x20 is too small for you, then you've either got an insanely
> low dpi setting, or you're not looking at the 10x20 font. My screen res
> is 1920x1200 at 96 dpi, and with the 10x20 font, an 80x24 xterm takes
> up almost a quarter of my screen.
and I found this
10x20        -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1
in the fonts.alias file.

I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything,
so how can I tell my dpi is low?

Thanks!
Zhengquan


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Zhengquan


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