On Tue, 17 May 2005, Vladimir Niksic wrote:
Bob, basically, you started at the wrong end. You should not have messed with the individual configuration parameters for each program subsystem, instead if you should have told X-Windows that the screen had a different DPI (number of dots per inch) In this way, you get X-Windows to use more dots for each inch, since you are lying (about the DPI), you actually increase the size X-Windows display everything.
I have had the same problem with a new 19" monitor on 1600x1200. When I set the higher DPI, everything works fine in konqueror, all the KDE stuff, all the gnome stuff, but in mozilla, everything is so damned tiny. It just refuses to use the system DPI setting. I've tried everything, and I gave up. I just press CTRL +, and weep. :-)
Check your X.org log files for errors. You may have a bad ModeLine in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. This is similar to a problem I had with the display managers (kdm and xdm) before replacing the nv driver with the nvidia driver. The desktop icons, Kicker, and the Konsole window frames are displayed at what is thought to be the maximum resolution for your display which is less than 1600x1200. Within the Konsole window the contents are being displayed at 1600x1200 but scaled with regard to the assumed default resolution. There is a "feature" in the X.org X server or the drivers provided by X.org that attempts to protect the user from selecting an unsupportable resolution. The probe is made at the wrong time, saved, and used by the display manager. It could also be an error in the SaX2 database. At any rate, you need to remove the modelines for resolutions other than the one that you want to use. Verify from the manufacturer's data that the modeline is correct. Reboot the system. Merton Campbell Crockett -- BEGIN: vcard VERSION: 3.0 FN: Merton Campbell Crockett ORG: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Intelligence and Exploitation Systems N: Crockett;Merton;Campbell EMAIL;TYPE=internet: mcc@CATO.GD-AIS.COM TEL;TYPE=work,voice,msg,pref: +1(805)497-5045 TEL;TYPE=work,fax: +1(805)497-5050 TEL;TYPE=cell,voice,msg: +1(805)377-6762 END: vcard