Sorry, this is slighly OT I know, but I wonder if anyone here knows of a
way to alter the default size of fonts in X? I am using 1600x1200 and
some apps, e.g. xsane, have very small menus at this resolution. Of
course I could use a lower resolution but I wonder if there is any way
to increase the default size? xfs perhaps?

A.


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Anthony Campbell <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> Sorry, this is slighly OT I know, but I wonder if anyone here knows of a
> way to alter the default size of fonts in X? I am using 1600x1200 and
> some apps, e.g. xsane, have very small menus at this resolution. Of
> course I could use a lower resolution but I wonder if there is any way
> to increase the default size? xfs perhaps?

startx --dpi 100 (or whatever number works best)

see man startx for details.

cordially, as always,

rm

justlinux@sympatico.ca wrote:
> Anthony Campbell <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> > Sorry, this is slighly OT I know, but I wonder if anyone here knows of a
> > way to alter the default size of fonts in X? I am using 1600x1200 and
> > some apps, e.g. xsane, have very small menus at this resolution. Of
> > course I could use a lower resolution but I wonder if there is any way
> > to increase the default size? xfs perhaps?

> startx --dpi 100 (or whatever number works best)

Actually that should be: startx -- -dpi 100

Forgot the extra dash.

> see man startx for details.

> cordially, as always,

> rm

On 2003-12-25, justlinux@sympatico.ca <justlinux@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> justlinux@sympatico.ca wrote:
>> Anthony Campbell <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> > Sorry, this is slighly OT I know, but I wonder if anyone here knows of a
>> > way to alter the default size of fonts in X? I am using 1600x1200 and
>> > some apps, e.g. xsane, have very small menus at this resolution. Of
>> > course I could use a lower resolution but I wonder if there is any way
>> > to increase the default size? xfs perhaps?
>
>> startx --dpi 100 (or whatever number works best)
>
> Actually that should be: startx -- -dpi 100
>
> Forgot the extra dash.
>
>> see man startx for details.
>
>> cordially, as always,
>
>> rm

Yes, indeed, thank you; I should have thought of that!

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On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:55:05 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:

>
> Sorry, this is slighly OT I know, but I wonder if anyone here knows of a
> way to alter the default size of fonts in X? I am using 1600x1200 and
> some apps, e.g. xsane, have very small menus at this resolution. Of
> course I could use a lower resolution but I wonder if there is any way
> to increase the default size? xfs perhaps?
>
> A.
im having a similar problem. in KDE some fonts for certain progz like the
tool bar for mozilla, foxfire, and my gaim messenger window are way
small. I have my system start in x and read that i should make a change
to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to the line
" :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 120 -gamma 1.6 "
is this correct, because I still see no change

bryans wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:55:05 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
>
>>Sorry, this is slighly OT I know, but I wonder if anyone here knows of a
>>way to alter the default size of fonts in X? I am using 1600x1200 and
>>some apps, e.g. xsane, have very small menus at this resolution. Of
>>course I could use a lower resolution but I wonder if there is any way
>>to increase the default size? xfs perhaps?
>>
>>A.
>
> im having a similar problem. in KDE some fonts for certain progz like the
> tool bar for mozilla, foxfire, and my gaim messenger window are way
> small. I have my system start in x and read that i should make a change
> to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to the line
> " :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 120 -gamma 1.6 "
> is this correct, because I still see no change


Had the same problem, somebody has fucked up the
fonts, i dont know if it is Mozilla or the Xfree
gang to blame. You can get it better by
export GDK_USE_XFT=1 in your profile, but if that
helps for KDE.. i don't know. It also makes all
TT-fonts unaccessible. But it is better than
this mess (small shots from different browsers
showing a testcase):
http://w1.970.telia.com/~u97007522/t.../testcase.html

steelneck wrote:
> >
> Had the same problem, somebody has fucked up the
> fonts, i dont know if it is Mozilla or the Xfree
> gang to blame. You can get it better by
> export GDK_USE_XFT=1 in your profile, but if that
> helps for KDE.. i don't know. It also makes all
> TT-fonts unaccessible. But it is better than
> this mess (small shots from different browsers
> showing a testcase):
> http://w1.970.telia.com/~u97007522/t.../testcase.html

Sorry, it should be
export GDK_USE_XFT=0
of course.

steelneck wrote:
> Had the same problem, somebody has fucked up the
> fonts, i dont know if it is Mozilla or the Xfree
> gang to blame. You can get it better by
> export GDK_USE_XFT=1 in your profile, but if that
> helps for KDE.. i don't know. It also makes all
> TT-fonts unaccessible. But it is better than
> this mess (small shots from different browsers
> showing a testcase):
> http://w1.970.telia.com/~u97007522/t.../testcase.html

well, it shows up fine (i mean the one all the way at the bottom) in my
self-compiled MozillaFirebird 0.7, *with* xft-support. the line with w's
fits nicely inside the box.

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bryans wrote:
..
> im having a similar problem. in KDE some fonts for certain progz like the
> tool bar for mozilla, foxfire, and my gaim messenger window are way
> small. I have my system start in x and read that i should make a change
> to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to the line
> " :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 120 -gamma 1.6 "
> is this correct, because I still see no change

Have you tried specifying the physical size of your display in XF86Config?
e.g.

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Hansol"
VendorName "Hansol"
DisplaySize 320 240

Using a screen resolution of 1152x864 I find in my XFree86.0.log that the
DPI gets calculated:

(**) FBDEV(0): Display dimensions: (320, 240) mm
(**) FBDEV(0): DPI set to (91, 91)


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bryans wrote:
> im having a similar problem. in KDE some fonts for certain progz like the
> tool bar for mozilla, foxfire, and my gaim messenger window are way
> small. I have my system start in x and read that i should make a change
> to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to the line
> " :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 120 -gamma 1.6 "
> is this correct, because I still see no change

i can't find anything about foxfire, but mozilla and gaim are gtk
apps. perhaps there is some gtk setting that is wrong? or if you use xft,
you can check /etc/fonts, which contains font settings.

a google search for either of these might tell you more.

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