[ltp] skinny fonts

[noc ops]

Greg Meyer wrote:
> 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.  This way fonts are really the right size and
>>you can resize them to you taste and get more correct font rendering at the
>>same time.  I 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 would
>>be too big when printed.
> 
> 
> BTW, I am trying your 96x96 setting now, and I am finding everything to be too 
> small, including the widgets.  The fonts are ugly and rendered horribly.  If 
> you haven't yet, please try setting your DisplaySize to the actual size.  I 
> think you will be surprised.  I use DisplaySize 284 213 on my 14.1 inch 
> 1400x1050 display.
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Unfortunately I shipped my thinkpad t43 back. I'm looking at getting
one w/ either 1024x768 or 1152x864 :-)


regards,
/virendra