Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-20 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 09:31 -0700, linux guy wrote: > If I start a KDE session in twinview mode, according to the nVidia > configuration GUI, under X screen, my resolution is 128 x 130 dots per > inch. I find those numbers a bit odd. You can work it out for yourself. Measure the screen, divide i

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-19 Thread linux guy
I didn't install Chrome, but thanks to the suggestions here, mainly the screen resolution, my desktop is now beautiful. Almost stunning, actually. Things I did - disable the laptop display, which for some reason set the resolution to 128x129. With just the U3011, I get a resolution of 75x75. -

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-19 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting linux guy : With the aforementioned resolution changes, my display looks about 10x better. Make that 20x better. One situation which still looks really awful is viewing gmail in Firefox. For some reason that font is terrible. Install Chrome. :D -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-19 Thread linux guy
With the aforementioned resolution changes, my display looks about 10x better. Make that 20x better. One situation which still looks really awful is viewing gmail in Firefox. For some reason that font is terrible. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-19 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:11 AM, linux guy wrote: >> Is X running at the right size for your monitor (the screen height and >> width in pixels), I just learned something, thanks to your suggestion. Aside, this is why I ask questions on this list. There is always someone else out there that has

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-19 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Tim wrote: > I'll state the obvious, despite your comment about JPEGs (because their > content can disguise this), it can still be an issue, and is easily > overlooked when changing a monitor: I agree. I appreciate your input in this regard. > Is X running at t

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-19 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Mark Panen wrote: Thanks for the reply ! > Download the Verdana font Where ? How ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the fonts/final/verdan32.exe/download ? and enable gtk in the KDE settings. After days of > trying, that's the best i got. Wha

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-19 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 23:52 -0700, linux guy wrote: > I upgraded to a larger monitor and now Linux (KDE) looks a bit dumpy. > > Can someone point me to some really nice KDE themes, desktops, etc. > > I'm having a bunch of trouble with fonts, especially in Firefox. > Everything looks a bit fuzzy

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-19 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:52 PM, linux guy wrote: > I upgraded to a larger monitor and now Linux (KDE) looks a bit dumpy. > > Can someone point me to some really nice KDE themes, desktops, etc. There are a bunch at http://kde-look.org/ I can't recommend one because I just use Oxygen with the Ob

Re: Looking for beautiful themes, application settings, fonts, etc. (KDE)

2012-01-18 Thread Mark Panen
On 19/01/2012 08:52, linux guy wrote: I upgraded to a larger monitor and now Linux (KDE) looks a bit dumpy. Can someone point me to some really nice KDE themes, desktops, etc. I'm having a bunch of trouble with fonts, especially in Firefox. Everything looks a bit fuzzy. And yet jpeg images lo