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On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:24:22AM -0700, George Garvey wrote: |
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> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:28:44PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > Although it seems like your X dpi setting should match the physical |
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> > resolution of your monitor, it can be used to tweak font sizes. There is |
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> > an X -dpi command line setting documented in the Xserver manpage and a |
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> > DisplaySize directive that can go in your xorg.conf file. The xdpyinfo |
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> But his stated aim is to increase font sizes, and use gimp at a |
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> higher resolution. Changing the DPI would mess up his expectations |
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> about gimp, as I understood them. He might as well stick to the lower |
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> resolution he prefers. |
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The question is precisely whether his X dpi matches his physical dpi. |
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I used to have a similar problem when I tried to run 1280 x 1024 on my |
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laptop and get itsy-bitsy fonts. |
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Then I took a ruler and measured the monitor and set the DisplaySize |
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in the Monitor section of xorg.conf and now the fonts becomes readable |
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again. |
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> I have a similar problem, due to a large monitor size coupled with |
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> 2304x1440 resolution. Font sizes for most X programs can be changed, |
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> including widow managers. Most of the web sites out there refuse to |
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> respect settings about font sizes put in browsers, though. It is |
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> annoying. Only thing I know to do is change zoom factors (and Firefox |
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> doesn't make that easy as far as I know: Opera did), squint and hope |
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> you don't ruin your eyes, or change X resolutions on the fly |
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> (Ctl-Alt-+, etc.). |
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SCIENCE: BREAD IS DANGEROUS |
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1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are |
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bread users. |
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2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread- |
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consuming households score below average on |
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standardized tests. |
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3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was |
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baked in the home, the average life expectancy |
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was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were |
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unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; |
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and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and |
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influenza ravaged whole nations. |
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4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed |
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within 24 hours of eating bread. |
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5. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects |
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deprived of bread and given only water to eat, begged |
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for bread after as little as two days. |
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6. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the |
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user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut |
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butter, and even cream cheese. |
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7. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the |
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human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows |
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that eating bread could lead to your body being taken |
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over by this absorptive food product, turning you into |
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a soggy, gooey, bread-pudding person. |
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8. Newborn babies can choke on bread. |
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9. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 450 |
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degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an |
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adult in less than two minutes. |
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10. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable |
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to distinguish between significant scientific fact |
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and meaningless statistical babbling. |
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