Carlos Rodrigues writes:
> I have a test installation of Debian (Sarge) and I wanted to force the
> screen resolution for XFree86 to 96dpi (because the fonts for GTK apps
> are way too big with the calculated default dpi settings), so I set
> "DisplaySize 270 203" in the "Monitor" section of "XF86Config-4", but
> this is completely ignored.i
> What mey be causing this, wasn't "DisplaySize" supposed to override
> the autocalculated values?
The FAQ in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common deals with how to change the
dpi value used by the X server and gives a list of scripts to alter.
Could it be you have not done this correctly and the dpi setting in,
say, /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc is overriding your DisplaySize setting?
Alternatively, you may want to examine whether the GTK apps you use
depend on libgtk1.2 or libgtk2.0. It is my experience that those that
depend on libgtk1.2, for example, dillo and gentoo, ignore the
DisplaySize line in XF86Config-4 whereas firefox and gvim, which depend
on libgtk2.0, do not. Why this is so I have no idea but neither have I
put much effort yet into discovering why.
Actually, what I did to alter the menu and dialogue fonts was to create
the files $HOME/.gtkrc and $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 for libgtk1.2 and libgtk2.0
dependent applications respectively. In the first one I have
style "default"
{
fontset="-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}
class "*" style "default"
and in the second
gtk-font-name = "Helvetica 14"
Whether this is the best technique I do not know but it works well for
me with the default dpi setting of 100 in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc.
Brian.
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