On Thursday 02 February 2006 19:53, Zan Lynx wrote: > > When you startx use the -dpi option to set your desired font size. > > Font size isn't the point (hah) of DPI. DPI should reflect the *REAL* > DPI of your display. Font size adjustment can then be made in the > normal and correct way: adjust the point size. > > With a correct DPI setting, a 72 point headline onscreen should be > exactly the same size as the same headline printed on paper.
OK - this is all good and fine, but it begs a few questions: 1. Why all this mucking about with DPI settings? With some versions of the nvidia driver my fonts are all oversized on the primary display, but are suddenly normal sized with a twinview display. With other versions of the driver, the fonts are consistently same size whether I am twinviewing or not. 2. The re-running the gnome-settings-daemon is a hack that I picked up somewhere. Why does this "fix" things? I don't use gnome and when I just checked I saw that my "gnome-control-center" dies with a 'The Application "gnome-control-center' has quit unexpectedly.' (it's been doing this for a long time now) so I can't confirm if this sets display DPI somewhere. I trolled through 'kcontrol' but couldn't easily find any DPI settings. -=R -- Rudolph Pienaar, M.Eng, D.Eng / email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging 149 (2301) 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129 USA _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
