[arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

[Samuel Baldwin]

2009/10/10 Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at 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?)

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Samuel Baldwin - logik.li