on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:54:28AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed a fresh Debian on a new PC and it has a problem that I haven't > noticed with my other installs. The default fonts in many applications > are WAY too small. For instance, the tooltips in sawfish are an > unreadable blur. In Motif applications, the fonts are all 6pt which is > entirely too small. Motif buttons are completely unreadable.
Try playing with order and/or commenting of 100 and 75 DPI fonts.
You're likely going to want 100dpi selected given 121dpi resolution
(below).
> What controls the default font size for these applications? My screen
> is 121dpi and I have all the scalable fonts I can get my hands on. X
> is properly configured and xdpyinfo shows the correct screen size and
> resolution.
There are numerous places to configure fonts. If the above doesn't do
it for you, you can play with X resources for most of your base apps,
and the appropriate GNOME and/or KDE resources configuration for these
desktops if you use them.
> I'm looking for a global equivalent to gtkrc for non-GTK applications. I
> tried putting this in my Xresources:
>
> *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-160-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
>
> and ran xrdb -merge but it didn't help at all.
What does
$ xrdb -query
...show?
Peace.
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