Re: small (size 8) fonts

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Robert Mibus <mibus bigpond com> writes:
> On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 12:43, Mike Johnson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I hacked and compiled away for a week to get to the gnome2 desktop. My
> > goal is to help out with some of the bug stomping.
> > 
> > I have one problem that I haven't been able to figure out just yet -- my
> > fonts are all miniscule -- like size 8 or even smaller. There's no
> > capplet that is compilied right now for themes...
> Incredible - my default font is too big IMO; I've set it to be "Tahoma
> 9", which is nice.
> (The fonts are too big both w/ & w/o AA; The AA default is far too big)
> 

The root cause of the problem you are all having is probably that your
X server reports the wrong dpi. Recent versions of X normally do a
pretty good job getting this right, but if yours doesn't you might try
setting the DisplaySize field in XF86Config. (see "man XF86Config")

To check your actual DPI, measure the monitor with a ruler to get
number of inches, run "xdpyinfo" to get resolution in pixels, 
then do the division. "xdpyinfo" will also report the DPI X thinks you
have.

Havoc