Display Fonts Are Too Small

Rajev Mhasawade rcmpost at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 18:14:04 UTC 2005


Although this adjusts desktop and taskbar's font size,but Mozilla
firefox and other many applications refuse to show up big.
Any Suggestions?
Rajev




> Wolfgang Gill wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:44:02 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote
>>
>>
>>> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm using the KDE desktop. There is no "FONTS" under preferences. I
>>> don't see anything  to do with fonts anywhere.
>>>
>>> Rick B.
>>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Wolf
>> --
>> Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
>>
>>
>>
> In KDE, choose Control Center/Appearance and Themes/Fonts then change
> the font sizes as you need.
>
Thanks. I'm not sure how I missed this.

Rick B.




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