Jochen Schulz on 05/06/06 13:49, wrote:
Adam Hardy:
Can I do anything to globally affect all font sizes in X, not just in the
bits that KDE controls?
[snip]
The easiest way to make sure X knows your real dpi:
- Run this:
xdpyinfo | grep dots
resolution: 92x92 dots per inch
If xdpyinfo shows 76 dpi, this is most probably false (unless you have
a very large monitor running at 1280x1024).
- Measure your display's visible dimensions. This is easy with TFT
displays and a little bit trickier for CRTs. But it doesn't have to be
100% accurate anyway.
- In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or XF86Config if you are running stable)
search for your "Monitor" section. Add a line like
DisplaySize 280 212
to this section with your display's dimensions in millimetres
- Restart X
- Run 'xdpyinfo | grep dots' again to see if it has changed.
At this point, your fonts might actually look screwed in some
applications. *But*: now all your applications (be it KDE, Gnome or
plain X) should display all fonts with the same point size at the same
real size.
I tried making the changes in the gnome dialog as well after installing 140MB of it - I'm afraid I didn't get anywhere, but wierdly there is a dialog box there for fonts with an input box for dpi - and when I increased the given dpi from 96 upwards, the text on the dialog box got bigger! Strangely counter-intuitive. So I left it at 96 dpi and changed back into KDE.
Here's my .gtkrc-2.0:
# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
include "/usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
style "user-font"
{
font_name="Sans 8"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"
include "/home/adam/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"
# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
And xdpyinfo gives this (my xrdb -query gives no output):
xdpyinfo |grep resol
resolution: 100x100 dots per inch
In the monitor section in xorg.conf I put
DisplaySize 360 286
but that made no difference.
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