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ZappingLinux
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 Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:09 am Post subject: Resolution Annoyance [SOLVED] |
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So I am on a somewhat older Asus laptop with a resolution of 1366 x 768. Now I find myself having to zoom out the entire time. When I open a terminal i do ctrl + '-', when I open firefox i do ctrl + '-' and I wish I knew how to zoom out in gvim except there are no plugins that do so without having to specify a font yet... So basically I think that the text is too big for nearly all applications. Any clue as to how this has come to be and how to change it?
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nokilli
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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You want to read up on fonts. For instance, for my terminal I use rvxt-unicode and I can directly set the font used via my .Xresources file, e.g.,
| Code: | | URxvt*font: xft:Monaco:antialias=false:pixelsize=10 |
You also have a tool called eselect, use it like this:
| Code: | | eselect fontconfig list |
This lets you enable/disable different fonts from the set of fonts from which things like Firefox makes its selections.
Fonts used to be a nightmare. It's pretty easy today, but there is some initial complexity you have to endure before it's all working well.
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ZappingLinux
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| nokilli wrote: | You want to read up on fonts. For instance, for my terminal I use rvxt-unicode and I can directly set the font used via my .Xresources file, e.g.,
| Code: | | URxvt*font: xft:Monaco:antialias=false:pixelsize=10 |
You also have a tool called eselect, use it like this:
| Code: | | eselect fontconfig list |
This lets you enable/disable different fonts from the set of fonts from which things like Firefox makes its selections.
Fonts used to be a nightmare. It's pretty easy today, but there is some initial complexity you have to endure before it's all working well. |
But it is not really the fonts that are the problem. Its the size of them. But then again maybe i should read up on it though I doubt the problem is nested there. |
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desultory
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| Given the reply when you posted the same question elsewhere , is this resolved? |
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ZappingLinux
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| desultory wrote: | | Given the reply when you posted the same question elsewhere , is this resolved? |
Sadly no. I never got a reply to the question :S |
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ZappingLinux
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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Actually helpfull but not a solution to my problem. Thank you anyway. |
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desultory
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| ZappingLinux wrote: | | desultory wrote: | | Given the reply when you posted the same question elsewhere , is this resolved? |
Sadly no. I never got a reply to the question :S |
| dantrell wrote: | | ZappingLinux wrote: | | So basically I think that the font is too big for nearly all applications. Any clue as to how this has come to be and how to change it? |
GNOME Tweak Tool -> Fonts -> Scaling Factor |
That is a direct reply to your question. Does adjusting the configuration options present there fix your problem? |
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ZappingLinux
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| desultory wrote: | | ZappingLinux wrote: | | desultory wrote: | | Given the reply when you posted the same question elsewhere , is this resolved? |
Sadly no. I never got a reply to the question :S |
| dantrell wrote: | | ZappingLinux wrote: | | So basically I think that the font is too big for nearly all applications. Any clue as to how this has come to be and how to change it? |
GNOME Tweak Tool -> Fonts -> Scaling Factor |
That is a direct reply to your question. Does adjusting the configuration options present there fix your problem? |
Oh help.... Did I really overlook that reply??? I will go check it out (I feel so dumb right now)...
Update:
Yeah.... that was it.... |
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desultory
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| ZappingLinux wrote: | Oh help.... Did I really overlook that reply??? I will go check it out (I feel so dumb right now)...
Update:
Yeah.... that was it.... |
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