[ltp] skinny fonts

[Greg Meyer]

On Friday 10 March 2006 11:50 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Friday 10 March 2006 10:58 am, noc ops wrote:
> > Correct. My gnome and X are talking 96 dpi.
> >
> > I think it's 1400x1050 tiny font appearance (skinny and faint) that's
> > causing my eyes pain. Also I was hoping to achieve windows like font
> > appearance that I'm not getting even after upgrading to freetype-2.1.10.
> > Hence I'm now looking at downgrading my laptop resolution to 1024x768
> > (max) resolution. Maybe getting another thinkpad model.
> >
> > See my earlier post regarding screenshots.
> >
> > Maybe I'm being too picky, then again I spend a min of 12 hrs on my
> > machine
>
> Have you tried setting everything to 125 dpi yet, which is the real
> resolution of your screen. =A0This way fonts are really the right size and
> you can resize them to you taste and get more correct font rendering at t=
he
> same time. =A0I really felt like I was having trouble with fonts on my
> machine until I did this, in fact it solved the problem where I was having
> to use large fonts on screen to get something readable, and then they wou=
ld
> be too big when printed.

BTW, I am trying your 96x96 setting now, and I am finding everything to be =
too=20
small, including the widgets.  The fonts are ugly and rendered horribly.  I=
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you haven't yet, please try setting your DisplaySize to the actual size.  I=
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think you will be surprised.  I use DisplaySize 284 213 on my 14.1 inch=20
1400x1050 display.
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/g