Display Fonts Are Too Small

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, John Mahowald wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:42:57 -0500, Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net> wrote:
>> I'm running FC2 and using the nvidia binary driver. The display program
>> to access the video drivers (and if memory servers, something to cause
>> the fonts to be larger) won't run. How can I get the size of the text on
>> the desktop and elsewhere to be larger? I'm running an ATSC 1080i screen
>> for watching HDTV and the screen size is 1920 x 1080 interlaced. The
>> text tends to be very small (and the interlace doesn't help!). It's a
>> pain to have to try to adjust the text size in each program or shell
>> separately and it doesn't affect the desktop text.
>>
>> Rick B.
>>
> On the menu: Preferences > Fonts. Crank up the size and choose
> different fonts, if you want.

Also, on the Details tab, specify the correct DPI.  Fonts are then close 
to their correct sizes and I find they look a lot better.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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