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Daemon n00b
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 65
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 11:23 pm Post subject: what's your xdpyinfo output? |
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if you're running 1024x768 resolution then what's the output of this command?
# xdpyinfo | grep dots
mine is 25x25. |
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Syntaxis Guru
Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 511 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: what's your xdpyinfo output? |
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I'm getting "resolution: 75x75 dots per inch" whichever resolution I'm in.
I'm using 1600x1200 16-bit colour as my default, in case that's important. |
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Daemon n00b
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 65
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 12:03 am Post subject: |
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damn!! mine is too small. any idea how to make 75x75? i edited my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers with the following line:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 75
but that's not helping... is it because im not using xdm?
i also started X from command line by:
#/usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 75
but that's not starting my kde.. just bare X.
any idea how to change the dpi? maybe in XF86config? |
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slik n00b
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 48 Location: Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 12:06 am Post subject: Re: what's your xdpyinfo output? |
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Daemon wrote: | output of this command?
# xdpyinfo | grep dots
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Output of mine is 89x96, at 1280x1024.. I took a ruler to my monitor though, and filled out the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config
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Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 364 270
EndSection |
which is the size of the display area in millimeters (364mmx270mm) |
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DNH n00b
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 60 Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 12:09 am Post subject: |
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resolution: 101x108 dots per inch
@ 1280x1024 _________________ The answer |
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Daemon n00b
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 65
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 12:21 am Post subject: |
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Dear slik.. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.
i was about to say goodbye to gentoo untill this DisplaySize line saved my desktop. |
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Malakin Veteran
Joined: 14 Apr 2002 Posts: 1692 Location: Victoria BC Canada
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 5:10 am Post subject: |
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I wonder how it could of been set to 25x25 in the first place? |
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kavel n00b
Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Hillsboro, OR
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 3:16 pm Post subject: font problems |
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I don't have any problems with my display size, and xdpyinfo is returning 75x75 for me. After reading this thread, I decided to give the DisplaySize variable a try. Put in the physical dimensions of my monitor and restarted X. The new xdpinfo output was higher than 75x75 (something like 89x86). The problems is, in mozilla, the fonts were sooooo badly scaled that I had to go back immediately and comment out the DisplaySize line.
I have a 19" monitor running 1280x1024. I use xfs as a font server. Does anybody have any ideas how to solve this problem? (It is not actually a problem, I'm just curious)
Thanks,
Kavel |
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Daemon n00b
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 65
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: font problems |
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kavel wrote: | (It is not actually a problem, I'm just curious)
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take the engineering approach... if it's not a problem don't fuck with it. |
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Malakin Veteran
Joined: 14 Apr 2002 Posts: 1692 Location: Victoria BC Canada
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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After reading this I added a displaysize entry but gave it my real numbers * 0.9 which gave me slightly larger fonts so I don't need to set the minimum font size on Mozilla anymore, all small fonts are readable, although I only had the problem with a couple websites. After giving it the bogus displaysize entry my dpi went to 86x86 now instead of the default 75x75. |
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ozric100 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 136
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:55 am Post subject: |
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you can startx -- -dpi 75 , I like 75 better then 100. I am just use to it. |
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