On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:25:52PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Before fiddling with fonts themselves, you may want to check whether DPI is appropriately set for your screen resolution and display size.
That was probably the biggest contributing factor. I followed recommendations in http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/06/mfabian_display_size.html and added DisplaySize with proper dimensions to the monitor section of XF86Config. My aging NEC MultiSync is not DDC compliant, apparently.
At the config file level, the basic setting is controlled by DisplaySize mmW mmH in 'Section "Monitor"' in /etc/X11/XF86Config. The result of this setting will be shown in KDE Info Center -> X-Server as resolution, screen size & DPI.
The problem is that I am not using KDE, I am running windowmaker, so KDE Info Center is unfortunately useless in my case. I used xdpyinfo to find out mismatch (not so big actually, ~10%) in dimensions.
Once this setting is suited to your needs for the programs/utilities it applies to, /etc/X11/Xresources needs a matching DPI setting for XFT apps, such as 'XFT.dpi: 108' if that's what the info center shows.
Where do I put this XFT.dpi setting? Currently, /etc/X11/Xresources has no XFT entries.
Only after setting these is it a good idea to tweak particular desktop settings.
But where do I tweak them if I am not using KDE? Thanks, -Kastus