[arch-general] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

[Sergey Manucharian]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:43:31 -0500
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty at 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