From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 12:53:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19DB16A41F for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:53:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C42E43D5A for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:53:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5291F534B2 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:53:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351B712603C for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:52:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (dsl-213-023-194-048.arcor-ip.net [213.23.194.48]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC14A28D83 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:53:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (root@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7OCqxaU005435 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:52:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kiste.my.domain (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7OCqxR9051650 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:52:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by kiste.my.domain (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j7OCqxEb051648 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:52:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: kiste.my.domain: lofi set sender to lofi@freebsd.org using -f From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:37:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <17161.55733.272571.61428@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20050823124028.GA67999@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland> In-Reply-To: <1124872145.1476.5.camel@taxman.pepperland> X-Face: =Ym$`&q\+S2X$4`X%x%6"L4>Y, $]<":'L%c9"#7#`2tb&E&wsN31on!N\)3BD[g<.jnfV[ 3#>XchLK,o; >bD>c:]^; :>0>vyZ.X[,63GW`&M>}nYnr]-Fp``,[[@lJ!QL|sfW!s)A2!* vNkB/|L->&QdSbQg X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:53:17 -0000 --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--