On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 06:21:00PM -0400, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > 2009/10/10 Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Check the DPI of your display (with xdpyinfo). Probably the lack of > > the external monitor made it come up differently. > > > > I dealt with this by fixing the XFT DPI value to 96, which is what > > most fonts are designed for, and what most software that cares, > > expects it to be. This can be done by setting the X property "xft.dpi" > > to "96". > > arrakis^~% xdpyinfo| grep -E 'resol|dimens' > dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (331x210 millimeters) > resolution: 129x127 dots per inch > > Not good? Where should I set xft.dpi? (Sorry, I haven't twiddled with > X much besides xorg.conf and .Xdefaults, is it either of those?) > i have an acer aspire 4720 laptop and i also was having problems with large fonts.this link [1] helped me. I also manually unchecked the option "allow pages to choose their own fonts" under firefox->edit->preferences->content->advanced. [1]http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One#Setting_dpi
