Everything is too small

thedonkdonk · 09-22-2010, 09:47 PM

I have a laptop with a 1920x1200 monitor. Everything is too small. The fonts. The icons. The window title borders. How would I make everything bigger without adjusting the resolution?

John VV · 09-23-2010, 04:03 AM

you did not say if this is gnome ,kde,xfce , or what
it is different in each

MTK358 · 09-23-2010, 07:44 AM

Make the font size bigger. The way you do this is different for every desktop.

John VV · 09-23-2010, 02:04 PM

also if it is kde there might be the dpi glitch on boot

i92guboj · 09-24-2010, 06:21 AM

If *everything* is too small you probably have a wrong DPI, the cause for this could be either a misconfiguration or a bug in either your desktop or your X driver. To find your actual dpi you can use this command:

Code:

# xdpyinfo | grep -i dots

DavidMcCann · 09-24-2010, 12:17 PM

I'm sitting in front of a 1024-pixel monitor that's 12" wide. To give the same size pixels, a 1920-pixel monitor would have to be 22" wide and I doubt that your laptop is that big: that's why things look small.

I assume from your distros that you're using Gnome. Enter the Systems menu and choose Personal - Look and feel - Appearance. Then you can choose your fonts and font sizes, and make them as big as you like.