On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 10:54:03PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
That page is rather old being for 8.0.
My monitor is much older :-). But they way of setting screen dimensions is still correct.
If there is no existing entry, just make it the last line, but using the DPI number shown by xdpyinfo. Xft.dpi: rather than XFT.dpi: is the correct parameter if case actually matters.
Case probably matters, but I didn't see any difference running X with Xft:dpi in Xresources or without.
Dunno the "correct" place, but after matching XFT.dpi to the xdpyinfo dpi you may not need to.
Well, yast2 looks much better now, but still is there a way to change font size that it uses? (without affecting *all* other applications)
There's no reason you have to use the actual measured dimensions of your display in XF86Config. You can move the DPI in there and Xresources up or down to suit your taste in overall font sizes. On 17" I generally use at least 108, often 120, sometimes 132 at 1280x960. Windoze defaults to 96, providing selectable options up to 192. My sister uses 192 on a 1600x1200 19" display on W2K.
I always use increments of 4 based from 72 when making these DPI adjustments. I'm not sure whether the font servers can be expected to produce consistent increments/decrements from size to size if you use less, at least with larger numbers, 100 and above.
Interesting. I will try different setting for Xft.dpi. Thanks much for your help! -Kastus