F10: default fonts too big

[wwp]

Hello Tom,


On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:03:12 -0500 Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:22:34 +0100
> wwp wrote:
> 
> > I've just installed Fedora 10 on a i383 system with WUXGA screen
> > running at 1920x1200.
> 
> GTK apps will only (apparently) obey the DPI info they get
> from gnome-settings-daemon. If you are running gnome, you
> will have one of these already and you can go into the
> gnome appearance dialog and into the advanced settings
> in the fonts tab and tell it to use a specific DPI setting.
> 
> KDE apps will probably obey the Xft.dpi X resource, but only if they
> actually see it, and with all the changes to X I have no idea
> if it even pays attention to things like ~/.XDefaults any more.
> You may need to use xrdb to load it.

Well, this really helped me. This is incredible how I could miss the
DPI setting in the GNOME font settings page. Turned it to 96 and voila.
I played w/ qtconfig-qt4 for the Qt4 apps. Will check if some other
apps are still big-font-ed.

Thanks a bunch, Tom.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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