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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> I'm running Gentoo (of course) with Blackbox as my WM. I got a |
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> digital camera several weeks ago, and am now playing around with |
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> 2590 x 1920 sized images in Gimp. My monitor can't go quite *THAT* |
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> high, but 1600 x 1200 (for that matter 1560 x 1170) is large enough |
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> for Gimp to display its toolbox menu plus an image window at 50% |
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> (1280 x 960) without any overlapping. |
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> My only complaint is that I can barely see the fonts at that |
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> resolution. I normally run at 1152 x 864 on a 19" CRT. I'd prefer to |
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> switch my web-browsing, etc to 1560 x 1170, but I simply can't read |
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> the text. For the time-being, I've created a second user account for |
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> myself. waltdnes (my regular account) surfs the web at 1152 x 864 on |
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> display :0, and user2 (how original) works with Gimp at 1560 x 1170 on |
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> display :1. |
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> How do I boost font size across the board so I can surf the web, and |
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> do spreadsheets, etc without having to squint at higher resolutions ? |
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Although it seems like your X dpi setting should match the physical resolution of your monitor, it can be used to tweak font sizes. There is an X -dpi command line setting documented in the Xserver manpage and a DisplaySize directive that can go in your xorg.conf file. The xdpyinfo program will tell you the current dpi setting. |
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Zac |
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