On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:15:18AM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > I have a new Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 laptop, running RedHat 9. The > > video card is NVidia-based, with 32MB RAM, and can handle a resolution > > of up to 1600x1200. When I choose this resolution, the entire screen > > is filled, and I have a beautiful, large desktop under GNOME. However, > > this is too big, and the text is all too tiny to read, so I wanted to > > make the resolution smaller. However, if I load up > > redhat-config-xfree86, and set the resolution lower, to say 1024x768, > > and then restart X, then my chosen resolution appears, but in a > > smaller box on the screen. It does not occupy the full screen, and so > > the text remains as small as ever, not taking advantage of a large > > physical screen. I have never seen this funny behaviour before on any > > system. On all my other computers, X just works fine, stretching the > > display to fit the physical screen size. Any ideas what might be > > wrong, and how I can correct this? > > Many of the newer laptop displays are optimized for a specific resolution, > and other resolutions look crappy, so they pretty much stay at the one > physical resolution and just allow you to change the virtual resolution. > > I would leave your laptop in 1600x1200, and adjust the font sizes so that > you can read the text. The font sizes can be adjusted by going to the > redhat button->Preferences->Font. You should find all that you need > there.
Thanks for your response Benjamin. Ok, I can live with that. I've made my system fonts larger and now almost everything is readable properly, except for mozilla. Mozilla's menus are still in a very small font, and I can't find any option in the mozilla menus to make them larger. The only options I can see are for the fonts used to render web pages, but nothing for mozilla's own menus and toolbars. Any pointers? Does mozilla not honour the system font settings? -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
