Display Fonts Are Too Small

[Dorothy Crees]

Wolfgang Gill wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:44:02 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote
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>>Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, John Mahowald wrote:
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>>>>On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:42:57 -0500, Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net> 
>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>On the menu: Preferences > Fonts. Crank up the size and choose
>>>>different fonts, if you want.
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>>>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.
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>>I'm using the KDE desktop. There is no "FONTS" under preferences. I 
>>don't see anything  to do with fonts anywhere.
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>>Rick B.
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>In KDE place the cursor on an empty location on the screen, and right click.
>A menu should appear, then goto Configure Desktop. In there you should be able
>to change the fonts, in the Appearance section.
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>Wolf
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In KDE, choose Control Center/Appearance and Themes/Fonts then change 
the font sizes as you need.