very small fonts @ startup screen / login

[Bloemetjesgordijn]

Hi,
For some time now (actually, since I migrated to KUbuntu) the fonts at "log in" / "start up" are way to small to read.

After start up / log in every thing is normal.
Normal or proprietary drives makes no difference


Current setup:
Kubuntu 9.10 64 bits
Ati Video card
Monitor: Sony LCD screen (a TV)

help is appreciated

Kind regards,

Bloemetjesgordijn

[Zorael]

When X (the graphical environment) starts, it tries to autodetect your screen dimensions and figure out what dpi setting (dots per inch) to use for fonts. The de facto standard is 96, but someone somewhere thought it'd be nice if fonts were the same physical size on all screens everywhere, instead of being the same pixel size everywhere. Sometimes this dpi lookup doesn't really work out and you get insanely huge/tiny fonts.

What you can do is to tell kdm (the login manager) to start X with an argument telling it to specifically use a dpi of 96, or other sane value of choice.

Open up /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc in a text editor with superuser permissions, such as by running 'kdesudo kate /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc' from a run box (Alt+F2) or a terminal. Find the section that has this line and add the bit in bold green.

ServerArgsLocal=-br -nolisten tcp -dpi 96

Just make a text search for 'ServerArgsLocal'.

[Bloemetjesgordijn]

Thx Zorael

for your explanation. I will give it a go and see if it works.

Thx again

Kind regards

Bloemetjesgordijn

[Bloemetjesgordijn]

Thx it worked like a charm

[barnskybeat]

How would that work in an Ubuntu 10.10 environment?

[Zorael]

For Ubuntu and other spins using GDM, I think you can add that -dpi 96 argument to /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc instead.

#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 96 "$@"

I haven't tried it myself so it may not work, though. From what I can tell GDM seems to have moved away from using a conventional gdm.conf file.

[vidtek]

My thanks to Zorael as well,

small thing but it's bugged me for ages.

Tony

[thomi_ch]

When X (the graphical environment) starts, it tries to autodetect your screen dimensions and figure out what dpi setting (dots per inch) to use for fonts. The de facto standard is 96, but someone somewhere thought it'd be nice if fonts were the same physical size on all screens everywhere, instead of being the same pixel size everywhere. Sometimes this dpi lookup doesn't really work out and you get insanely huge/tiny fonts.

What you can do is to tell kdm (the login manager) to start X with an argument telling it to specifically use a dpi of 96, or other sane value of choice.

Open up /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc in a text editor with superuser permissions, such as by running 'kdesudo kate /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc' from a run box (Alt+F2) or a terminal. Find the section that has this line and add the bit in bold green.

ServerArgsLocal=-br -nolisten tcp -dpi 96

Just make a text search for 'ServerArgsLocal'.

hey

exact above was the solution for the problem with small font size in google-earth... strange....

thanks a lot

reagards
thomi

[Anatona]

Thx for the help!