On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Sergey Manucharian<sergeym@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:43:31 -0500 > "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Listmates, >> >> I'm looking for a way to adjust the font size scaling (no not >> the control center font size) so all the fonts in my kde4 desktop >> look right. Basically, in Arch kde4 on my laptop, all fonts look 1pt >> too big. Case in point, on suse, I have all my desktop fonts set to >> 9pt, but with Arch, I have the size set at 8pt and they still look >> bigger than the suse fonts (same fonts of course, same subpixel >> hinting setting, etc...). >> >> Is there somewhere that some type of scaling is done that I >> can tweak to try and fix this? The effect of the larger scaling makes >> everthing from the kmail message list to the basket notepad fonts >> look cramped. Any thoughts? >> > > Hi David, > > look into the following files in both Arch and Suse boxes: > > /etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources > ~/.Xresources > > They may contain the following line: > > Xft.dpi: 100 > > (of course, 100 is just an example). > > You may want to adjust this number to fit the actual screen DPI. > > Cheers, > Sergey > > afaik, gnome/kde (and maybe xfce and other desktop) provide a gui to configure DPI and set the DPI themselves. for example on gnome : xrdb -q | grep dpi Xft.dpi: 98 but I can edit that in gnome font gui. I am fairly sure kde has a similar setting, in its font panel as well.
