Fonts (Firefox/Windows & Firefox/Linux)

[Karl Larsen]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:32:27 -0500
> Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> the gnome font setup now uses some heuristic to
>> try and divine a proper dpi from the monitor size or other details
>>     
>
> Yep. It uses the info the monitor provides about its size and
> resolution. For me, that meant that it found I was hooked up
> to a 1920x1080 42 inch HTDV monitor, and it concluded that it
> obviously should be using 53 DPI, which resulted in most fonts
> showing up about 5 pixels high. It took quite a while to find
> the fonts setting dialog so I could manually switch to 96 DPI
> and get fonts I could actually read :-).
>
> As soon as I could finally see what I was doing, I submitted
> this bugzilla:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377651
>
>   
    There are many things you can do. The most straight forward is to 
re-adjust your Screen to a proper size. I am old and worry about seeing 
things so my 17 inch lcd has a 1280X1024 resolution. You can try lower 
resolution until the fonts are normal size.

    I also use thunderbird and they let you make the font bigger and I 
did. I really doubt that what anaconda is doing is bad. It is rather 
nice to have the new version pop up with a pointer on the mouse and full 
size. This Ubuntu did with this computer. Never seen that on Fedora yet.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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