On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 06:21:00PM -0400, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
2009/10/10 Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@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