[arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

2009-10-10 Thread Samuel Baldwin
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

Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

2009-10-10 Thread Ray Kohler
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,

Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

2009-10-10 Thread Samuel Baldwin
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,

Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

2009-10-10 Thread Ray Kohler
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

Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

2009-10-10 Thread Partha Chowdhury
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

Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

2009-10-10 Thread Samuel Baldwin
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