[SOLVED] Best approach for unreadably small fonts on small high resolution screens?
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Best approach for unreadably small fonts on small high resolution screens?
I just installed Slackware-current 64 on my new Asus Zenbook UX21A last night (goodbye and good riddance, Windows 8!). This ultrabook has a 1920x1080 native resolution on an 11.6" screen, so of course everything is REALLY small.
To make my console fonts readable so I could set everything up, I appended "video=640x400" to the lilo config. That makes my eyes feel better, but I am not sure it is the *right* way to handle it.
Also, for inside X, I could go through and change the size of all the fonts, but is that also the appropriate way to deal with this? I am wondering if there is a better way I do not know about.
How are others dealing with issues like this on the newer small high resolution screens?
Changing screen resolution to a non-native one is suboptimal, especially on LCD/TFT displays.
I'd recommend to install terminus-font and set the appropriate glyph size.
For console (set by KMS at boot process) in /etc/rc.d/rc.font like
Thanks, that is extremely helpful, especially the terminus-font and the dpi settings. I was thinking I needed to figure out the dpi, but I had no idea what to set it to. I put it at 190 and now everything is perfect!
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