Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

[Tim Beck]

Sounds like your DPI may be set incorrectly (if at all). I've had a horrible
time getting the fonts in Firefox + KDE looking usable at normal (10-14)
font sizes. For whatever reason, Xorg doesn't play nice when it comes to
anything font related (at least, not in my experience). It certainly doesn't
work out of the box on any of the machines *I* own.

Below are a few links which you may find useful in relation to your font
problems;

Here's a link to Mozilla's site that talks extensively about font DPI issues
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html

Here's a link (it's for archlinux, but still should be okay) about how to
configure Xorg.conf. Note section 4.11 which talks about font sizes and DPI:
http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/XOrg_Font_Configuration

Here's the gentoo-wiki page dealing with xorg and fonts. It talks a bit
about fonts and DPI scaling; at the bottom however is a link about
controlling the font DPI in X: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts

And finally here's a link to some comments on the gentoo wiki about
KDE/fonts/dpi/etc. I found this comment of particular use a while back:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts#Font_DPI

Lastly, I suggest you try searching the forums for stuff about kde, firefox,
fonts, dpi, etc. Searching the forums has become increasingly annoying due
to the volume of posts there, but if you dig long enough you should find
something useful :)

Good luck!

Tim

On 9/23/05, Stewart Taylor <stewarta.taylor@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> Holly Bostick wrote:
>
> Phew! what a long post. Sorry it's taken
> so long to come back on this. I tried
> the emerge x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt.
> Then made the changes in KDE Control
> center. No effect at all. I didn't have
> Gnome installed, so to see if the basic
> setting and hardware are ok I installed
> it, this is what has taken so long. When
> I ran Firefox under Gnome no problems,
> everything was as it should be. So your
> idea that it is basically a KDE problem
> looks to be correct. Where I go from
> here I have no idea.
>
> Stewart
> >
> >
> > I find this situation a constant annoyance as well. You have,
> > unfortunately, several issues involved, none of which is completely
> > resolveable until everybody is on board with the freedesktop.org<http://freedesktop.org>
> > standard, but you can get everything to a reasonably stable state that
> > you can deal with.
>
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