On Wed, 18 May 2005, B. Stia wrote:
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 02:13, Jerry Westrick wrote:
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 08:49, B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
<snip some> Suggestions on how to increase font sizes in X for the apps that KDE doesn't handle ??
Bob S.
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.
One change, and everything works!
Hello Jerry,
Thanks for replying. Welllllll....possibly you are correct, BUT, maybe I didn't provide enough info. Set the 21"monitor up with Yast/Sax2. Set it at 1600x1200. The "geometry" part of this is set to 1024x768 and refuses to be changed. Can't see where you can change the dpi.
xdpyinfo shows the resolution at 48 x 48 dpi and the dimensions as 1024 x 768 (542 x 406 millimeters) Sooo...They are different and cannot be resolved.
Merton,
My Xorg.conf file exists but is not touched. It still shows the old monitor and settings. There are however some new XF86.conf files which Yast/Sax2 changed. I would think that Xorg would be where the changes were made.
/etc/X11/XF86Config should be a symlink to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The last modification dates to any of the other XF86Config.* files should be prior to the date that you upgraded to SuSE 9.3. The only files that SaX2 and YaST2 should be modifying are the xorg.conf.* files. The geometry values displayed by SaX2 are the problem. I don't recall what video card you were using but I have an GeForce FX 5200 based card from Pine. Using the nv driver from X.org, the geometry was captured before setting the display resolution. A ViewSonic VP201m only reports the current geometry. It has an initial value of 1024x768 to support the BIOS video output. The only way to get around the geometry problem was to replace the nv driver with the nvidia driver from nVidia. It apparently doesn't support the request for geometry and allows the 1600x1200 mode to be set and used by the display manager. Merton Campbell Crockett
Rodney,
Went and downloaded the gtk-qt-engine src file. Will have to compile if need be because I am running 64 bit system. Late now, try tomorrow. FYI I do not have a gnome-font-properties in /opt/gnome/bin
Stick with me people. I need the help.
Bob S.
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