From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 14:00:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 447C81065670 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:00:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB7A8FC0A for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [193.31.11.193] (helo=current.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pi5vd-00051R-Dr for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:00:57 +0100 Received: from current.Sisis.de (current [127.0.0.1]) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p0QE1537001941 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:01:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p0QE15ui001940 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:01:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: current.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:01:04 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110126140104.GA1866@current.Sisis.de> References: <20110121121455.GA2413@current.Sisis.de> <201101211350.p0LDoii3017220@lurza.secnetix.de> <20110122084820.GA3845@tinyCurrent> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20110122084820.GA3845@tinyCurrent> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 193.31.11.193 Subject: Re: skype-2.0.0.72,1 && font size X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:00:59 -0000 El día Saturday, January 22, 2011 a las 09:48:20AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: > El día Friday, January 21, 2011 a las 02:50:44PM +0100, Oliver Fromme escribió: > > > When the dpi value is incorrect, i.e. too high, then some > > applications will think that your screen is much smaller > > than it really is, so they adjust the sizes of fonts and > > icons to be bigger. This is exactly the symptom that you > > are seeing. > > > > For a quick check, restart your X server with the option > > -dpi 100 (or modify your xorg.conf appropriately) and > > verify the font sizes in your applications. If it's > > better, then just keep it that way. > > The -dpi flag did not work for me, but inserting the size into xorg.conf > as 330 185 (mm) works fine and the fonts are now nice in Skype as they > have been before lifting up this FreeBSD installation into a VM on the > same laptop where it run before as host system. This was said to early :-(( The dpi value is fine now: $ xdpyinfo | fgrep dots resolution: 146x146 dots per inch and mostly Skype comes up with 8p fonts, but sometimes it changes back to ugly 10p fonts; it seems that there is some relation with the following applications on the same desktop KDE 3.5: Evolution 2.24.5 Firefox 3.0.7 Pidgin 2.7.9 until now I don't see the exact rule, but one of them changes the font size in Skype (and in Pidgin, too); matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/