[opensuse] Changeing DPI for X
Hi, I have a "DPI problem" under X. I forced the DPI from 96 to 120 under KDE, but the user login part is still displaying very small fonts (I mean really small and almost unrecognizable). My display is a Samsung LCD-TV at 1360x768. I tried changing the display dimensions in the xorg.conf (from 890 500 to 495 250 for example), restarted the X server and no change. I was wondering if there's any possibility of changing the X's default calculated DPI values so I don't have to override it manually under KDE for every user I create with desktop login. Thank you in advance. P.S. Clayton, thanks for the tips on how to install my tv :D -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007/06/21 02:15 (GMT+0300) Andrew apparently typed:
I have a "DPI problem" under X. I forced the DPI from 96 to 120 under KDE, but the user login part is still displaying very small fonts (I mean really small and almost unrecognizable). My display is a Samsung LCD-TV at 1360x768. I tried changing the display dimensions in the xorg.conf (from 890 500 to 495 250 for example), restarted the X server and no change. I was wondering if there's any possibility of changing the X's default calculated DPI values so I don't have to override it manually under KDE for every user I create with desktop login.
Your DisplaySize setting is probably being ignored. Functional DDC in recent xorg versions usually renders DisplaySize impotent. Undo your force in KDE, add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in 'Section "Device"' for your graphics card the line 'Option "NoDDC"', then restart X. If that or that and subsequent tweaking of the DisplaySize dimensions solves the problem it means DDC on your equipment isn't working right for you, which isn't necessarily the same thing as being broken. http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html has more about tweaking DPI generally. -- "Respect everyone." I Peter 2:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Edit the file /etc/X11/Xresources by adding the line Xft.dpi: 96. This should solve your problem. Francesco Andrew wrote:
Hi,
I have a "DPI problem" under X. I forced the DPI from 96 to 120 under KDE, but the user login part is still displaying very small fonts (I mean really small and almost unrecognizable). My display is a Samsung LCD-TV at 1360x768. I tried changing the display dimensions in the xorg.conf (from 890 500 to 495 250 for example), restarted the X server and no change. I was wondering if there's any possibility of changing the X's default calculated DPI values so I don't have to override it manually under KDE for every user I create with desktop login. Thank you in advance.
P.S. Clayton, thanks for the tips on how to install my tv :D
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On 2007/06/21 09:05 (GMT+0200) Francesco Teodori apparently typed:
Edit the file /etc/X11/Xresources by adding the line Xft.dpi: 96. This should solve your problem.
Note that Xft.dpi could solve the problem for most apps, but not for legacy apps that don't know what Xft is. -- "Respect everyone." I Peter 2:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
You are right. It is only a simple trick, useful for most of the
applications commonly used.
Francesco
On 6/21/07, Felix Miata
On 2007/06/21 09:05 (GMT+0200) Francesco Teodori apparently typed:
Edit the file /etc/X11/Xresources by adding the line Xft.dpi: 96. This should solve your problem.
Note that Xft.dpi could solve the problem for most apps, but not for legacy apps that don't know what Xft is. -- "Respect everyone." I Peter 2:17 NIV
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Andrew
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Felix Miata
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Francesco Teodori