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On 2012/04/25 16:30 (GMT-0500) Duaine Hechler composed:
So with that being said, how do I - easily - change the DPI ? Is it in YAST ?
There is no "easy" if you want 100% success. The "easy" (simplest) way depends on desktop environment. In KDE, there's a "force fonts DPI" chooser in the fonts panel in system (aka personal) settings. Gnome 2 had something similar in Gnome Control Center, which I think had name changes since. Because there are gotchas, I recommend you only try this to see how you like the results of forcing DPI, and to find out what number pleases you most - after setting the display back to its native/preferred mode. Once you know what DPI works best for you while in native mode, the overall across all apps and toolkits and user logins more thorough and effective, and definitely less than easy, method is via /etc/X11/xorg.conf*. How to do it there is not uniform across all display drivers. The place to tweak is 'Section "Monitor"'. If using an NVidia binary driver, you very logically place 'Option "DPI" "100 x 100"' using whatever DPI number you want, check below for general instruction where and how to place it, and restart X. Absent NVidia binaries, it's more complicated, because it's most thoroughly done via DisplaySize. To get accurate DPI, you use the physical height and width of your display, but in your case of wanting everything bigger, you must lie about the sizes, telling X the sizes are _smaller_ than they actually are. Rather than making the necessary calculations to arrive at the required mm dimensions, you may be able to look suitable ones up in my DisplaySize cheat file[1] where I list the display dimensions that correlate to various combinations of resolution and desired target DPI, mostly multiples of 12, such as 72, 96, 108, 120, 132, 144, plus various others. The file includes an explanation why to prefer a multiple of 12. Rather than putting all the required components into xorg.conf so that it parses correctly, it's supposed to be somewhat simpler to use the files in xorg.conf.d/, 50-device.conf, 50-monitor.conf and 50-screen.conf, with elementary content as follows: # 50-device.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" EndSection # 50-monitor.conf Section "Monitor" Identifier "Default Monitor" Option "DefaultModes" "on" # only sometimes necessary # DisplaySize 338 270 # 096 DPI @ 1280x1024 (typical size of 17" LCD) DisplaySize 270 216 # 120 DPI @ 1280x1024 (to make things 25% bigger) Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024" # insurance, probably unnecessary EndSection # 50-screen.conf Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Default Device" Monitor "Default Monitor" EndSection Those three files are installed by default in 12.1, but include nothing but comments. To use them, uncomment the required lines, add the necessary addition(s) (minimally, a DisplaySize line), and restart X. Combining the three above files into one xorg.conf file should produce the same result as the three individual files, but preserve the originals in their unused and inert state. [1] http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/DisplaySize -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org