From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 10:56:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E82916A41F for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:56:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2526743D45 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:56:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp214-161.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.214.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OAuPfP083631 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:26:30 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:26:13 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <17161.55733.272571.61428@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland> In-Reply-To: <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2185340.2haUzZzhcs"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508242026.14744.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Eric Anderson , Andreas Hauser , "Devon H.O'Dell" , Stefan Ehmann , freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:56:57 -0000 --nextPart2185340.2haUzZzhcs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 miscalculati= ng > > 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.. =2D-=20 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 --nextPart2185340.2haUzZzhcs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDDFJO5ZPcIHs/zowRAh9eAKCUmViB3JIsBdTOyK7OGQ+b1vhREQCdGwHk 9RgOFxLoamPRjODfsZUasNQ= =IkRT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2185340.2haUzZzhcs--