Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:37:24 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) Message-ID: <200508241437.26052.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland> References: <17161.55733.272571.61428@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland>
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--nextPart2919441.GTIPTyumqM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 24. August 2005 10:29, Stefan Ehmann wrote: > Most applications pretty much ignore those settings. But e.g. konqueror > fonts are ridiculously big. I forced it back to 75dpi via DisplaySize in > my xorg.conf and it looks much better for me. That's really the wrong approach. The DPI of your display is a fixed value.= =20 =46ontsizes are relative to this value. The key to sane fontsizes (and keep= ing=20 them sane when you change displays) is to make sure X correctly detects or= =20 calculates the DPI of your display. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart2919441.GTIPTyumqM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDDGoGXhc68WspdLARAg4cAJ9v93Lj8rk/I1dGjcfpotQbba61CgCdHQf2 tU2/GMPEZh1P1PU0TxCzK4I= =OW+H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2919441.GTIPTyumqM--
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