Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-07 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:23:37PM EDT, Adam Hardy wrote: > cga2000 on 06/06/06 00:32, wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:09:20PM EDT, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>Jochen Schulz on 05/06/06 13:49, wrote: > >>>Adam Hardy: > Can I do anything to globally affect all font sizes in X, not just in >

Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-07 Thread Adam Hardy
cga2000 on 06/06/06 00:32, wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:09:20PM EDT, Adam Hardy wrote: Jochen Schulz on 05/06/06 13:49, wrote: Adam Hardy: Can I do anything to globally affect all font sizes in X, not just in the bits that KDE controls? [snip] The easiest way to make sure X knows your r

Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:09:20PM EDT, Adam Hardy wrote: > Jochen Schulz on 05/06/06 13:49, wrote: > >Adam Hardy: > >>Can I do anything to globally affect all font sizes in X, not just in the > >>bits that KDE controls? > [snip] > > > >The easiest way to make sure X knows your real dpi: > > > >-

Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Jochen Schulz on 05/06/06 13:49, wrote: Adam Hardy: Can I do anything to globally affect all font sizes in X, not just in the bits that KDE controls? [snip] The easiest way to make sure X knows your real dpi: - Run this: xdpyinfo | grep dots resolution:92x92 dots per inch If xd

Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Hardy: > > Can I do anything to globally affect all font sizes in X, not just in the > bits that KDE controls? There is a quite clean way to do this. At least it works for me. Preface: Your problem may be that your X makes wrong assumptions about your screen resolution. Not in absolute n

Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:42:18 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cga2000 on 05/06/06 02:22, wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:15:59PM EDT, Adam Hardy wrote: > >> My monitor does a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024. > >> > >> I'm using KDE and it seems that the font size at this reso

Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-05 Thread Adam Hardy
cga2000 on 05/06/06 02:22, wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:15:59PM EDT, Adam Hardy wrote: My monitor does a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024. I'm using KDE and it seems that the font size at this resolution is considerably greater than it is in windows, which I use at work. So I am trying

Re: screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:15:59PM EDT, Adam Hardy wrote: > My monitor does a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024. > > I'm using KDE and it seems that the font size at this resolution is > considerably greater than it is in windows, which I use at work. So I am > trying to work out what is going

screen resolution, font size and real estate

2006-06-04 Thread Adam Hardy
My monitor does a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024. I'm using KDE and it seems that the font size at this resolution is considerably greater than it is in windows, which I use at work. So I am trying to work out what is going on. I tried setting my font sizes from 10 to 8 in the KDE settings /