On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 02:36:46 -0400 (EDT)
Felmon Davis <davisf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ok, that's progress; still tiny fonts in the menus of GTK apps but
also elsewhere, e.g. in some menus of Firefox still; tiny icons on
'kicker' and elsewhere. strange tiny fonts on the opening page of
Trinity Control Center.
I need to figure out GTK.
I noticed that in you entire quest you never mentioned /etc/fonts
and/or ./config/fontconfig. There is a dpi property that if set in configs
will override what is requested by application. search for 'name="dpi"'
through all fontconfig files to check if you have not set it somewhere.
so I've looked about, not sure I've found every nook and cranny, but
haven't found settings in the places you've mentioned and elsewhere.
have made some progress though.
(1) I took measure of the screen; I think I could have used Felix's
page but stumbled on <https://www.infobyip.com/detectdisplaysize.php>
9.6" diagonal; 8.3" width; 4.7" heigth
I set '/etc/X11/xorg.conf/90-monitor'
to: DisplaySize 294 165
(2) I turned off 'Force fonts DPI' in the Trinity Control Center and
set dpi to 190 via
echo Xft.dpi: 190 | xrdb -merge
(3) did some settings in 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in TCC; GTK2 fonts are
supposed to use Sans Serif 15, Redmond is style; GTK3 is on style
TraditionalOk. fooled around re-sizing 'kicker' and with configs in
some programs case by case.
these measures cleared up most but not all problems. some programs
still misbehave:
(a) Gimp and LibreOffice have grotesquely large menu fonts. still
can't quite find pertinent gtk or program settings. I have install
Apache Office yet.
(b) icons are too small in Pan; probably something can be fixed in its
config. not terribly important. some other icons elsewhere also small.
I believe there are a couple of other issues I don't find now in my
notes. of course I haven't opened everything that's been installed by
default, most of which I will remove anyway. ah, e.g. I see something
called 'Music Player' has teeny fonts. I likely won't use it but I'm
discontent that I haven't developed a more systematic way to get
control of the interface. I guess some of this requires
program-by-program skirmishing.
I'll explore more and pin things down.
Cinnamon runs ok; next run I'll reconnoitre its gtk settings.
thank everyone for advice and help.
f.
--
Felmon Davis
Most people are too busy to have time for anything important.
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