Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:54:16 -0800 > Konstantin Svist wrote: > > >> I connected my computer to a 52" TV (1920x1080, HDMI) - and it shows me >> huge fonts on the login window. They're so large, that some of the text >> runs off screen. >> >> Is there a way I can tell it to use the normal (96?) DPI? >> > > That's weird. I have the opposite problem with a big monitor. The DPI > computed from the actual EDID info is really small so it figures > fonts about 4 pixels high will be what it wants. > > In any case, it is possible to fix (though a pain in the patoot): > > http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/stick.html#GDM%20Font%20Size > > Basically you need to make it look as though the user named "gdm" > has run the gnome appearance properties app and set his default > font DPI (since GDM is running as user GDM). > > Ah okay, makes sense. Faking the appearance properties shouldn't be too hard, I just didn't know that's what would do the trick. Also didn't know it runs a user gdm. For some reason I thought it would be root. Thanks Tom! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
