Font sizes

[r.stiltskin]

Running gentoo 2006.1, xorg-x11-7.0-r1 and kde 3.5.2.

Some apps, such as Eclipse-sdk (3.2), Konqueror, Firefox, are using fonts that I find uncomfortably small, and they seem to ignore the font settings in KDE Control Center. I can sort of work around this problem in Konqueror and Firefox by setting minimum font sizes in "configure konqueror" and Firefox preferences (but this creates other problems with some websites not displayed correctly).

But Eclipse has no font settings of its own. It's supposed to be controlled by the system font settings.

I don't have this problem on my laptop (running Kubuntu). There, the font sizes are much more comfortable (I did nothing to adjust any fonts).

In both machines, the display is set to 1024x768. On the laptop, the firefox fonts are bigger (with no minimum font size set) than they are on the desktop (with minimum font size set at 12).

These are the only errors I see when X starts up:

[alkan]

maybe your DPI is the problem? what "grep DPI /var/log/Xorg.0.log" says?
You can play with monitor dimensions in xorg.conf until you get such a DPI so that fonts render fine on the screen.
96-110 DPI seems to work best.

[Shopro]

Please see this to fix the problem: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts
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[r.stiltskin]

Maybe not the best solution, but I fixed it by:
1) I deleted my ~/.kde and ~/.kde3.5 directories
2) I removed 1280x1024 from all the "Modes" lines of my xorg.conf. (Previously, KDE was starting up at the higher resolution & when I wanted bigger type I used "configure desktop" to reduce it to 1024x768. That works for most apps, but not for Eclipse.)

So now the fonts in Eclipse are a reasonable size, but I have to live with 1024x768 for everything.

My stuff was set up based on the Gentoo Nvidia Guide, so it mostly complies with the info in the Fonts wiki. The wiki is interesting, but doesn't really give much useful explanation in the areas that seem most likely to help: the ~/.fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf, and "hinting". Seems to require a great deal of experimentation to figure out how to use those.

Also, my dpi was already set to 96x96. Maybe I could play around with that, but I sort of ran out of time, and anyway, I didn't want to screw up everything else just to enlarge the fonts on one annoying app.

Thanks, anyway for your suggestions.

[mor22]

I found a solution to this, I have just upgraded to kdelibs version 3.5.5 and all my fonts went small.

to fix this I found that the there was a few extra lines (the unscaled ones) in my xorg.conf

[EzInKy]