Hi Thomas! Am Samstag, 30. November 2013, 18:32:19 schrieb Thomas Koch: > I'm just sitting with a friend of mine, a 70+ years old woman showing her a > linux Desktop. I've already manually hacked /usr/bin/startx to add "-dpi > 120"...
An alternative may be setting DisplaySize : merkaba:~> cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/anzeige.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Graphics card" Option "Monitor-LVDS1" "Display" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Display" DisplaySize 340 192 EndSection Identifiers are arbitrary. The command xrandr shows proper value for Monitor option name suffix. You can cheat with DisplaySize to enlarge all font sizes, but then other measurements like centimeters or inches don´t work as well anymore. Thus I suggest raising font sizes manually. But then that may be difficult with browsers. I often press Ctrl + to enlarge web pages. If I set larger fonts in webbrowsers as some sites still do not seem to get the differences between point and pixel which is crucial for this 143x143 ThinkPad T520 Full HD display I often get incorrect rendering. Chromium seems to remember Ctrl + zoom setting per page / URL. > Is there any project inside debian specialized for the needs of elderly > people? > > Such needs might be: > > - big fonts and icons > - reduced complexity, minimal number of options > - consistency in the UI I am not aware of. Within Debian. I read of something more general years ago, but do not remember details. There are for sure different icon and font sets. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/43312155.qmoUdxh9h6@merkaba