On Wed 19 Oct 2016 at 12:51:32 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/19/2016 11:33 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 09:22:00AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>It's not _quite_ an 'XY Problem'. The OP hath declared. <grin> > >>It may be its first cousin. There is a not explicitly stated solution > >>constraint. > >>In my case I wish to use default resolution of current driver/monitor > >>combination. > >>I install to multiple machine/monitor permutations. > > > >This is an interesting problem. You are right that changing GRUB's display > >resolution will not get consistent results across multiple machines (with > >different native/default resolutions, etc. -- and different screens with > >different DPIs) > > > >However, the same is true for different font sizes. A system with a higher > >DPI > >will show the same size font physically smaller than another with a lower > >DPI. > > > > The ideal solution would be the ability to specify desired font size in > points. > I've not decided on an attainable approximate metric.
As Jonathan Dowland says, the interplay between screen resolution, DPI and font size makes this an interesting problem. With the present GRUB, booting a USB stick and having all displays look nearly the same is probably an insoluable problem. What I do is fix gfxmode at 1024x728, find a font size from experiment and cross my fingers. This mostly works on different machines. It comes to mind (and I have had no opportunity to try it) to have different GRUB stanzas with different gfxmode resolutions and font sizes for different displays. -- Brian.
