[ltp] skinny fonts

[Aaron Mulder]

OK, here's another question to tack on to this discussion.

I have a projector configuration set up on my T43p that uses the ATI
MergedFB clone mode to allow 1400x1050, 1024x768, or 800x600, with the
same resolution on the laptop LCD and mirrored to the VGA port.  It
always comes up at 1400x1050, with nice looking fonts, and then I
resize it down (using the KDE control panel which I think uses
xrandr?) to match the projector I'm connecting to.

That all works fine, but when I disconnect the projector and switch
back to 1400x1050, then fonts have gone bad (e.g. very small/thin).=20
It's almost like it recalculated the DPI for 1024x768 but then didn't
recalculate it again when going back to 1400x1050.  If I log out and
back in again, needless to say, the fonts are fine again, but I'd
really like to avoid needing to do that.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
    Aaron

On 3/11/06, Greg Meyer <mdklists@gkmweb.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 March 2006 1:47 am, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > It's not your hardware. 1400x1050 means more definition, and better
> > looking fonts, than 1024x768.
>
> Excellent point to cap off an outstanding explanation.  A 1400x1050 displ=
ay
> that is the same size as a 1024x768 display will have much nicer font
> rendering assuming the X is told about the correct display size, because =
it
> has more pixels per inch to make a better image.
>
> Back to the OP, because you were focused on recreating what windows was d=
oing,
> with a graphical environment that doesn't do it the way windows does, you
> have inadvertently traded in a much nicer display.  Just set DisplaySize =
to
> the actual physical characteristics of the flat panel, and all will be
> fantastic.
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