xdpyinfo |grep resolution That will tell you the dpi that X is running at. -jm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley Bostock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Donavan Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Font size in MythFrontend Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:28:56 +0000
> > How do you know that the size you put (should be the actual size of > the screen) generates 100 dpi? > > Ash. > > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:52:22 -0500, Donavan Stanley > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:11:20 -0600, Paul Gratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Took me alot of searching and trying things to find out but what is > > > going on is that MythTV scales the font size dependent on what size it > > > thinks the screen physically is (so it gets a consistent dots per inch). > > > To change the dpi of the screen you have to set DisplaySize in the xorg > > > or XF86Config files. I added this line: > > > > > > DisplaySize 203 152 # mm > > > > > > To the Monitor section and it fixed it for me. Try to get a size that > > > is approximately the size of your screen. > > > > You also need to use a size that generates 100 dpi. Otherwise things > > still will not look right or be sized as intended by the theme > > designer. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
