Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Samuel Baldwin recursive.for...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason when I turned my laptop on today and started X, all my fonts were larger than normal. The only one that seems to have the stayed has been my console font, but even that feels a bit off (however, I'm not too worried about that, it could be that I'm sitting slightly closer than normal; the rest are most certainly measurably larger, though). The only difference between now and previously is that I don't have my external monitor plugged in, but my resolution didn't change, and I've used this computer without the external before without problems. It's just simply bigger; I turned down the GTK font, which seems to have worked for some apps (like firefox and pidgin), but the fonts are unbearably large for some websites: http://logik.li/images/screenshots/arrakis/large_fonts_in_some_places.png A few months ago I had a similar problem with certain sites having large fonts, and never really managed to solve it, one day after reinstalling it just went away and never came back until now. This was probably related. This is what similar sites used to look like: http://logik.li/images/screenshots/arrakis/let_me_show_you.png (and when they used to be bad: http://logik.li/images/screenshots/arrakis/126-negative_what_log-p.png ) So, anyone have any ideas about what I should do? Check the DPI of your display (with xdpyinfo). Probably the lack of the external monitor made it come up differently. I dealt with this by fixing the XFT DPI value to 96, which is what most fonts are designed for, and what most software that cares, expects it to be. This can be done by setting the X property xft.dpi to 96.
Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting
2009/10/10 Ray Kohler ataraxia...@gmail.com: Check the DPI of your display (with xdpyinfo). Probably the lack of the external monitor made it come up differently. I dealt with this by fixing the XFT DPI value to 96, which is what most fonts are designed for, and what most software that cares, expects it to be. This can be done by setting the X property xft.dpi to 96. arrakis^~% xdpyinfo| grep -E 'resol|dimens' dimensions:1680x1050 pixels (331x210 millimeters) resolution:129x127 dots per inch Not good? Where should I set xft.dpi? (Sorry, I haven't twiddled with X much besides xorg.conf and .Xdefaults, is it either of those?) -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Samuel Baldwin recursive.for...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/10 Ray Kohler ataraxia...@gmail.com: Check the DPI of your display (with xdpyinfo). Probably the lack of the external monitor made it come up differently. I dealt with this by fixing the XFT DPI value to 96, which is what most fonts are designed for, and what most software that cares, expects it to be. This can be done by setting the X property xft.dpi to 96. arrakis^~% xdpyinfo| grep -E 'resol|dimens' dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (331x210 millimeters) resolution: 129x127 dots per inch Not good? Where should I set xft.dpi? (Sorry, I haven't twiddled with X much besides xorg.conf and .Xdefaults, is it either of those?) Yes, put it in .Xdefaults and do whatever you normally do after changing that file. Case matters: Xft.dpi: 96
Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 06:21:00PM -0400, Samuel Baldwin wrote: 2009/10/10 Ray Kohler ataraxia...@gmail.com: Check the DPI of your display (with xdpyinfo). Probably the lack of the external monitor made it come up differently. I dealt with this by fixing the XFT DPI value to 96, which is what most fonts are designed for, and what most software that cares, expects it to be. This can be done by setting the X property xft.dpi to 96. arrakis^~% xdpyinfo| grep -E 'resol|dimens' dimensions:1680x1050 pixels (331x210 millimeters) resolution:129x127 dots per inch Not good? Where should I set xft.dpi? (Sorry, I haven't twiddled with X much besides xorg.conf and .Xdefaults, is it either of those?) i have an acer aspire 4720 laptop and i also was having problems with large fonts.this link [1] helped me. I also manually unchecked the option allow pages to choose their own fonts under firefox-edit-preferences-content-advanced. [1]http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One#Setting_dpi
Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting
Excellent, the dpi trick worked perfectly. I wonder why it fiddled with it... glad it's all working now though, thank you! I might try the trick with the other sites chosing fonts as well, some people have horrid taste. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
