On Wed Mar 21 22:13:32 2001 Richard C. Cobbe wrote...
>
>Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write:
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>> How can I set up X properly so that the fonts are displayed in the proper
>> (eg 1/72 inch per point) size?
>
>Can't do 72dpi, but you can do 75dpi, which is close enough.  Take a look
>at your font path (in /etc/X11/XF86Config by default on potato; this may
>well be different for woody/sid).  Make sure the 75dpi entries precede the
>100dpi entries, then restart X.

        Maybe I did not make my question clear, or perhaps I'm just to dumb to
        understand the answer.

        Let me elaborate. As I increase the resolutin (more pixels) on the 
screen, the
        font's just get smaller. I don't think this is the way it should work. I
        suspect I have something configured wrong. At one point in time, during 
the
        install I was asked what size monitor I had, I answered 17". Well now I 
have a
        19" atached to this system. How do I tell X what the dimensions of the 
screen
        are, so that it can display say a 12 point font as something aproaching 
a real
        12 point typeface, instead of some unreadably small size?

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Stan Brown     [EMAIL PROTECTED]                                    843-745-3154
Charleston SC.
-- 
Windows 98: n.
        useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
        a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
        originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
        company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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