Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Mark Gray <markgray-temp-1100788658@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"B. Stia" <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sunday 12 December 2004 04:52, Jerry Westrick wrote:
>> I'm know specialist in this area, but...
>> Why are you looking for a change to gnome
>> when you seam to have an XWindows problem?
>>
>> The DPI setting of your screen, can be changed via YAST2.
>>
>> Have you tried changing the setting there?
>>
>> JErry
> Jerry, 

> Thanks for replying. Am looking at them because they are the only ones 
> affected. I also had this problem back in 8.0 or 8.1 and it was 
> corrected by using gnonecc. 
> 
> I have looked at Yast until my eyes got blurry. All and every option I 
> could find for the monitor and the videocard. Never found anything 
> about a dpi setting. I know that it is incorrect. A change there would 
> fix my problems with these apps.  Please be so kind as to tell me 
> exactly where to look.

When (and if) you give up trying to get yast to change DPI, you can
try modifying /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers like I did.  In my case X used too
big a font, so I added a '-dpi 75' option to the commands for starting
the xdm Xservers:

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -dpi 75 vt7
:1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -dpi 75 :1 vt8
:2 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -dpi 75 :2 vt9
:3 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -dpi 75 :3 vt10
:4 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -dpi 75 :4 vt11
:5 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -dpi 75 :5 vt12
[end quote]

I also added it to /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xservers just in case,
but kdm does not appear to read that file.  (If you find the correct
SuSE/Yast way to do this (that works) I will be happy to hear it :-)