Font Size Problem

reikyv · 05-10-2008, 02:38 PM

I am running Slackware 12.1 on a Dell Latitude D630 laptop, and I am using OpenBox as my window manager.

I found the font size of some applications (e.g. Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, etc) are too big (I mean the menu button, title etc), but OpenOffice is okay.

I found some guide here but manually startx with this command:
$ startx -- -dpi 72

And this temporary solve my problem.

How can I add this permanently to my xorg.conf? So I can type 'startx' instead of 'startx -- -dpi 72' everytime I start my gui?

Attached is my current xorg.conf file:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "GLcore"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option       "XkbModel"  "latitude"
	Option       "XkbLayout"  "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  300   190	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "AUO"
	ModelName    "1347"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"         	# <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"       	# <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel"
	VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
	BoardName   "Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks.

BCarey · 05-10-2008, 02:45 PM

Add it to the defaultserverargs line of /usr/bin/startx.

You should read daedra's post at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...n-12.1-640468/

Brian

dugan · 05-11-2008, 12:46 AM

Another way:
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size

Daedra · 05-11-2008, 02:36 AM

Can you post a screenshot?

reikyv · 05-11-2008, 02:48 AM

Hi,

Here is the screenshot, I am reading your guide that suggest by BCarey. I have also tried the way Dugan suggested by calculated my screen size and add it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but it doesn't helps.

Picture 1
Picture 2

Code:

Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  300   190	# mm
	DisplaySize  325 229
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "AUO"
	ModelName    "1347"
EndSection

Su-Shee · 05-11-2008, 02:59 AM

The font size of menu buttons in the mentioned applications can be adjusted in your .gtkrc.mine like this:

Code:

style "user-font" {
        font_name = "Bitstream Vera Sans 8"
}

widget_class "*" style "user-font"

Or: (I've got both, forgot which one sets what exactly.)

Code:

gtk-font-name="Bitstream Vera Sans 8"

This affects the font size and font choice in Gtk-family based applications - namely Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, Gimp, filemanagers like Thunar, PcManFM, Nautilus and so on.

Don't put it into .gtkrc-2.0 - usally, config application from Gnome or theme switcher tools put their options in there and overwrite yours.

The (window?) title font size is adjusted by your windowmanager, if you mean those "titles".

(And wasn't 72 dpi the default xserver setting anyway?)

reikyv · 05-11-2008, 03:24 AM

Hi Su-Shee,

By adding .gtkrc.mine into my home directory doesn't solve my problem.

I follow Daedra's guide, and everything is fine now. ;-)

Have a look:

screenshot

Thanks for the help guys, ;-)