On Wed Mar 21 22:13:32 2001 Richard C. Cobbe wrote... > >Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: > >[reformatted for 80 cols] > >> 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? -- 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. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.