Hi Felix, I'm using a resolution of 1280x1024 on the openSUSE 11.3 installation. The way I compare them, I remotely open a window from the server running 12.3. I attach a screeshot here where I superimpose the window opened remotely from 12.3 (top) onto a window opened locally on 11.3 (botton); please pay attention to the menus (Session, Edit, etc.). I notice the same effect also when I work locally on the 12.3 installation (also 1280x1024). Both installations are clean (not upgrades) and sax2 is not present in 11.3 either. However, I need to say that the 11.3 installation runs with the proprietary NVIDIA driver whereas the 12.3 installation runs on an Intel video card (with the opensource driver). How can I find out what DPI I have in either installation? The xorg.conf file created by the NVIDIA installer in 11.3 does not show any DPI settings.
If you choose to force it via systemsettings (KControl), be sure to either unset Xft.dpi if it is set, or cause it to match any systemsettings value you choose to force to.
Where do I find "Xft.dpi"?
DPI and fonts generally: http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/fonts-linux-about.html
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, right now it shows "The connection has timed out". Gianluca On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-11-21 16:01 (GMT-0800) Gianluca Interlandi composed:
I noticed that fonts appear larger in openSUSE 12.3 (and possibly all openSUSE 12.x) than in openSUSE 11.x, in particular for GTK and QT based applications. For example, it does not affect fonts in the konsole terminal itself (like misc-fixed) but it affects fonts in the menus. I have selected exactly the same fonts and font size in the kcontrol center (incl. those for GTK applications) as in my openSUSE 11.3 installations, but for some reason in openSUSE 12.3 most fonts appear slightly larger.
Just wondering if anybody has noticed the same and knows a trick to revert to openSUSE 11.x font rendering?
What display size and resolution do you use?
Sounds like you've encountered a difference in desktop DPI between the old and the new. X used to be set up by SaX2 right up to around 11.3. An upgrade from something pre-11.3 may have left your 11.3 with a SaX2 configured setup.
Now and for several releases it's normally set up automagically at each startup, with configuration via /etc/X11/xorg.conf* remaining an option. You can tweak DPI up or down by forcing DPI.
If you choose to force it via systemsettings (KControl), be sure to either unset Xft.dpi if it is set, or cause it to match any systemsettings value you choose to force to.
If you choose a value below 96 to force to, unstyled web browser text of any given nominal size is likely to be larger in browser windows, as most if not all other than Konq using KHTML (as opposed to using the WebKit option in Konq 4) either set a 96 floor (Gecko), or lock it at 96 (WebKit/Blink).
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