Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:01:04 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: skype-2.0.0.72,1 && font size Message-ID: <20110126140104.GA1866@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20110122084820.GA3845@tinyCurrent> References: <20110121121455.GA2413@current.Sisis.de> <201101211350.p0LDoii3017220@lurza.secnetix.de> <20110122084820.GA3845@tinyCurrent>
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El día Saturday, January 22, 2011 a las 09:48:20AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: > El día Friday, January 21, 2011 a las 02:50:44PM +0100, Oliver Fromme escribió: > > > When the dpi value is incorrect, i.e. too high, then some > > applications will think that your screen is much smaller > > than it really is, so they adjust the sizes of fonts and > > icons to be bigger. This is exactly the symptom that you > > are seeing. > > > > For a quick check, restart your X server with the option > > -dpi 100 (or modify your xorg.conf appropriately) and > > verify the font sizes in your applications. If it's > > better, then just keep it that way. > > The -dpi flag did not work for me, but inserting the size into xorg.conf > as 330 185 (mm) works fine and the fonts are now nice in Skype as they > have been before lifting up this FreeBSD installation into a VM on the > same laptop where it run before as host system. This was said to early :-(( The dpi value is fine now: $ xdpyinfo | fgrep dots resolution: 146x146 dots per inch and mostly Skype comes up with 8p fonts, but sometimes it changes back to ugly 10p fonts; it seems that there is some relation with the following applications on the same desktop KDE 3.5: Evolution 2.24.5 Firefox 3.0.7 Pidgin 2.7.9 until now I don't see the exact rule, but one of them changes the font size in Skype (and in Pidgin, too); matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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