On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Sergey Manucharian<sergeym@rmico.com> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:43:31 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates,
I'm looking for a way to adjust the font size scaling (no not the control center font size) so all the fonts in my kde4 desktop look right. Basically, in Arch kde4 on my laptop, all fonts look 1pt too big. Case in point, on suse, I have all my desktop fonts set to 9pt, but with Arch, I have the size set at 8pt and they still look bigger than the suse fonts (same fonts of course, same subpixel hinting setting, etc...).
Is there somewhere that some type of scaling is done that I can tweak to try and fix this? The effect of the larger scaling makes everthing from the kmail message list to the basket notepad fonts look cramped. Any thoughts?
Hi David,
look into the following files in both Arch and Suse boxes:
/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources ~/.Xresources
They may contain the following line:
Xft.dpi: 100
(of course, 100 is just an example).
You may want to adjust this number to fit the actual screen DPI.
Cheers, Sergey
afaik, gnome/kde (and maybe xfce and other desktop) provide a gui to configure DPI and set the DPI themselves. for example on gnome : xrdb -q | grep dpi Xft.dpi: 98 but I can edit that in gnome font gui. I am fairly sure kde has a similar setting, in its font panel as well.