Walter Dnes wrote:
I'm running Gentoo (of course) with Blackbox as my WM. I got a
digital camera several weeks ago, and am now playing around with
2590 x 1920 sized images in Gimp. My monitor can't go quite *THAT*
high, but 1600 x 1200 (for that matter 1560 x 1170) is large enough
for Gimp to display its toolbox menu plus an image window at 50%
(1280 x 960) without any overlapping.
My only complaint is that I can barely see the fonts at that
resolution. I normally run at 1152 x 864 on a 19" CRT. I'd prefer to
switch my web-browsing, etc to 1560 x 1170, but I simply can't read
the text. For the time-being, I've created a second user account for
myself. waltdnes (my regular account) surfs the web at 1152 x 864 on
display :0, and user2 (how original) works with Gimp at 1560 x 1170 on
display :1.
How do I boost font size across the board so I can surf the web, and
do spreadsheets, etc without having to squint at higher resolutions ?
Although it seems like your X dpi setting should match the physical resolution
of your monitor, it can be used to tweak font sizes. There is an X -dpi
command line setting documented in the Xserver manpage and a DisplaySize
directive that can go in your xorg.conf file. The xdpyinfo program will tell
you the current dpi setting.
Zac
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