Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:26:13 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>, Andreas Hauser <andy@splashground.de>, "Devon H.O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com>, Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>, freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) Message-ID: <200508242026.14744.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland> References: <17161.55733.272571.61428@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17:59, Stefan Ehmann wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:40 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:57:48PM -0000, Andreas Hauser wrote: > > > dodell wrote @ Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:01:50 -0700: > > > > They all use Bitstream Vera at a > ridiculously small font size > > > > > > startx -- -dpi 100 > > > better ? > > > > Why this isn't already the default is beyond me... Or am I miscalculating > > dpi with the standard 1280x1024 17" flatpanel? > > I find 100 dpi unusable on my 1280x1024 17" TFT (which is the default > here). > > Most applications pretty much ignore those settings. But e.g. konqueror > fonts are ridiculously big. I forced it back to 75dpi via DisplaySize in > my xorg.conf and it looks much better for me. Ugh.. Control Centre -> Appearance & Themes -> Fonts Adjust All Fonts, set the size tick box and away you go.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDDFJO5ZPcIHs/zowRAh9eAKCUmViB3JIsBdTOyK7OGQ+b1vhREQCdGwHk 9RgOFxLoamPRjODfsZUasNQ= =IkRT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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