Re: Font size in Dapper

Steven Kurylo wrote:

> So I upgraded to Dapper last night, and it went well.
>
> The only issue is that most of my fonts in X are too small. I'm using
> the Ion window manager. I increased the size of the fonts specified
> by Ion, and those are fine.
>
> For whatever reason, the Firefox fonts didn't shrink. Shell fonts, OO
> fonts, and such are easy to fix. That leaves Thunderbird.
>
> In Thunderbird if I go into preferences and change the minimum font
> size, the messages do become large enough. However the toolbar, menu,
> folder list, and the pane with the subjects don't increase in size.
> They're unuable right now.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix them?

In your xorg.xonf you have the option to tell it what size your screen
is so it can calculate the dpi accordingly. In the Monitor Section, add
"DisplaySize width height" to tell xorg the size of your screen in
millimeters. I believe this only affects things if xorg cannot read your
monitor's EDID.

If that does nothing to help things, try entering the dpi manually into
the ~/.Xresources file. If the file does not exist, create it and add
the following:

Xft.dpi: 100

Change 100 to the desired dpi.

Hope that helps,
Reid
Received on Thu May 4 10:17:37 2006