Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:24:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote

> The question is precisely whether his X dpi matches his physical dpi.
> I used to have a similar problem when I tried to run 1280 x 1024 on my
> laptop and get itsy-bitsy fonts.
>
> Then I took a ruler and measured the monitor and set the DisplaySize
> in the Monitor section of xorg.conf and now the fonts becomes readable
> again.

  Thanks.  That was it, at least for menus.  Here are a couple of lines
from my revised xorg.conf

#    DisplaySize 400 300
    DisplaySize 328 246

  400 mm x 300 mm gives approx a 19 inch diagonal.  I lied to X, telling
it that I have a smaller CRT.  X uses bigger fonts to remain readable on
the "smaller CRT", and I like it.  Non-menu fonts for apps have to be
set individually.  For Firefox, it's...  

Edit => Preferences => General => Fonts & Colors

  The one part I haven't figured out is xterm.  If I {ALT-RIGHT-CLICK}
in an xterm, I get a menu that will alter font sizes.  How do I change
the default font size that xterm comes up with?

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