fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!)

[Stijn Hoop]

[once again to -chat]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:29:04AM +0200, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:40 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:57:48PM -0000, Andreas Hauser wrote:
> > > dodell wrote @ Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:01:50 -0700:
> > > > They all use Bitstream Vera at a > ridiculously small font size
> > > 
> > > startx -- -dpi 100
> > > better ?
> > 
> > Why this isn't already the default is beyond me... Or am I miscalculating
> > dpi with the standard 1280x1024 17" flatpanel?
> 
> I find 100 dpi unusable on my 1280x1024 17" TFT (which is the default
> here).
> 
> Most applications pretty much ignore those settings. But e.g. konqueror
> fonts are ridiculously big. I forced it back to 75dpi via DisplaySize in
> my xorg.conf and it looks much better for me.

Yes, but you are still lying to X. Your display (at that resolution) has
~100dpi.

If you want smaller font sizes, say so in the KDE control panel.

If you want the default changed, convince more people to run their desktop
at the right DPI, and see whether they notice the same.

I don't know when X gained the capability to decipher this on its own, but
I know that lots of people were running with 75dpi on 100dpi monitors,
resulting in horrible default fonts etc. One of the problems with webpages
in *nix vs Windows, differing fontsizes, is caused by exactly this.

--Stijn

-- 
"I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am.  It's
just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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