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

[Xavier]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Sergey Manucharian<sergeym at rmico.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>

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.