[ltp] skinny fonts

[noc ops]

Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:18, noc ops wrote:
> 
> 
>>>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 :-)
> 
> 
> There are no Thinkpads with 1152x864 resolution - the resolution is made of 
> actual physical dots (transistors) in the LCD, and they are the size they are 
> and you can't make it not be so.  You are trying to force reality to be 
> different than it is, and you will not succeed.
> 
> A 1400x1050 pixel display at 14.1" diagonal is 124dpi, whether you like it or 
> not.  Set it to that in X (DisplaySize 287 215) , then set your fonts to your 
> liking based on that.
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This is too late for me to try. Like I said earlier, I've already
shipped my laptop :(

> 
> An LCD is not a CRT, and doesn't resize like a CRT.  Give it up and accept you 
> have a 124dpi LCD.  You are wasting time and money struggling against 
> reality.
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1400x1050 was too tiny for me. Increasing font size created jaggedness
which was not worth it. Then again maybe its me.



regards,
/virendra

> 
> Cheers,
> Bret