From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 02:32:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6185516A4DA for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:32:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from ash25e.internode.on.net (ash25e.internode.on.net [203.16.214.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D3443D46 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:32:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from alpha.home (ppp164-23.lns3.adl4.internode.on.net [59.167.164.23]) by ash25e.internode.on.net (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k6Q2WANN046839 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:02:12 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) From: Malcolm Kay Organization: at home To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:02:09 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607261202.10046.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Subject: Font size problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:32:18 -0000 I am running Xorg under FBSD 5.4 with a 1600x1200 19inch monitor. I am also running xfs to serve fonts. According to log file Xorg.0.log the screen resolution is discovered: (**) NV(0): DPI set to (119, 119) But if I call an xterm with: % xterm -fn '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' then it uses a font significantly smaller than 12pt. If however I specifically nominate the screen resolution: % xterm -fn '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-120-120-120-*-*-iso8859-1' then it comes out about right. This is not really a problem as I can set acceptable fonts for xterm using .Xdefaults. The real problem comes with open office:- When running openoffice.org-2.0.2, compiled from ports, the user interface fonts (menus, dialogs, etc.) have an even worse problem. The help documentation claims that these (on 100% scaling) are 12pt however I find the actual displayed size is very close to 8pt, which for my aging eyes is far too small for comfort. Would this be related to the failure to apply the the screen resolution in the fonts used by xterm? The fonts in the actual application content display correct size. Importantly, how can I get around this problem of the user interface font size in open office? I have managed to change the user interface font family to the fully scalable serif font 'nimbus roman no 9 l' in place of the ghastly sans-serif default but I can't find any way to set the size used except by changing the view scaling which acts on the application content as well as the user interface. And even at the maximum setting of 130% the user interface is still unpleasantly small. I have found that I can alter the scaling to 150% or 160% by manually editing one of the initialisation files which makes the user interface fairly comfortable but leaves the application content and rulers way over size. Can anyone please help? Malcolm