On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:10:29 -0800 > From: Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected], > "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: PLUG <[email protected]> > Subject: [PLUG] Font sizes on pixilla (QXGA T60) > > After some initial euphoria with the QXGA 2Kx1.5K T60 laptop > (two page 12 point text in OpenOffice looks wonderful!), I am > running into font problems, mostly browser related. > > Google gadgets are clipped. Some flash content comes in Really > Small. Some use 5x7 fonts, the line spacing is 1.2 mm! Thumbnails > are tiny. I imagine I will find fixes, but the original incentive > (making cleaner looking, easier to read characters for old eyes) > is not happening the way I had hoped. > > The pixels on this thing are 0.15mm. Crazy small. An iPhone is > 0.16mm, and an 11.6 inch WXGA 1101 EeePC is 2.3mm. > > Yes, I can use a magnifier like kmag, or bring the machine up > in 1024x768 screen mode. The Ctrl+ "view larger" on firefox > does expand pictures, but some things ignore that. > > Hopefully, in a week or two, I will find some fixes, probably some > hidden firefox configuration parameters. Meanwhile, I can think > vengeful thoughts about all the young programmers writing unscalable > apps. Someday, their young eyes will get old, they will no longer > be able to see their own apps, get fired, and live in the gutter :-/ > > Keith
Perhaps you can play with the DPI setting by adding this to ~/.Xdefaults: Xft*dpi: 92.0 I have noticed that fonts look different with different video drivers. The fglrx friver makes fonts bigger than the radeon driver, for example. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
