Hi everyone, thanks to all the kind people who offered suggestions. First of all, the screen dpi is set correctly in lyx and XF86 configurations - otherwise the main Lyx sceen would get messed up, and it is just fine.
So the problem is specifically Xforms. I have not been able to fix this in the preferences, by trying other fonts for popups and menus - in fact, this tends to make all menus go blank until you delete .lyx. Allan Rae suggests to me that this is a permanent problem in Xforms, and I have to wait till GUII arrives, REAL SOON NOW! So, here is an excellent reason for GUII - high-res LCD screens aren't going away! If any .de lyxers want to see the symptoms, I'll be at Uni of Erlangen in Bavaria for a year on a Humboldt award - happy to buy beer for hardworking developers. Ich bemuehe mich Deutsch auch lernen. Peter Drummond. Physics Department, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Queensland, Australia. Tel:+61-7-3365-3404 Fax:+61-7-3365-1242 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/drummond On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Peter D Drummond wrote: > > >BUT - if you look at menus, all the Xforms fonts in the menus and > >icons become incredibly tiny - obviously they aren't scaling > >correctly. I can't find any information on how to fix this. > > Have you tried setting DisplaySize option in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > (or the resolution/dpi setting if you're using XFree 3.x)? > > You might also have success by editing FontPath settings > in the same configuration file. Specifically, 100dpi fonts > should be before 75dpi fonts (or you might remove the > line that defines 75dpi fonts completely). > >
