On Mon Nov 01 1999 at 15:49, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> When I am in X, at 1600x1200 with a Matrox Mill2 AGP, and a
> 19" Viewsonic G790, smaller fonts that would otherwise look
> fine underwindows (about a 10pt or 12pt courier) are
> indistinguisably blurry, its starting to REALLY bother my
> eyes, and I was curious how I could correct this
> blurryness? I think I read a while back about someone
> increasing the DPI for their XServer... I am not sure if
> this is an optimal fix, I would like to hear some
> suggestions that people have tried and worked.
>
> I am running a clean stock install of RH 6.1
There was a discussion only recently about this very point (wrt
how the fonts looked in netscape).
Try starting your X server with the -dpi parameter, eg:
startx -- -bpp 32 -dpi 96 &
I wasn't aware of this until the discussion came up, and after trying
it, it has made a big difference here.
Cheers
Tony
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