The Font Deuglification HOWTO recommends raising the dpi setting in the xdm configuration to a higher value, e.g., in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 It suggests choosing something even higher if the hardware will support it. However, raising the dpi setting produces (on my machine, anyway, using KDE) unreasonably large type in several contexts: the kdm login, the numbers that show up for the windows in the KDE taskbar, and the numbers in the squares in kminesweeper :=). Is there a way to crank the typesize of those items down again while retaining the higher dpi setting? They don't seem to be affected by any of the font settings in the KDE control panel (and certainly the kdm login wouldn't be). Paul