very small fonts @ startup screen / login
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 :-D
Kind regards,
Bloemetjesgordijn
Re: very small fonts @ startup screen / login
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.
Code:
ServerArgsLocal=-br -nolisten tcp -dpi 96
Just make a text search for 'ServerArgsLocal'.
Re: very small fonts @ startup screen / login
Thx Zorael
for your explanation. I will give it a go and see if it works.
Thx again
Kind regards
Bloemetjesgordijn
Re: very small fonts @ startup screen / login
Thx it worked like a charm
Re: very small fonts @ startup screen / login
How would that work in an Ubuntu 10.10 environment?
Re: very small fonts @ startup screen / login
For Ubuntu and other spins using GDM, I think you can add that -dpi 96 argument to /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc instead.
Code:
#!/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.
Re: very small fonts @ startup screen / login
My thanks to Zorael as well,
small thing but it's bugged me for ages.
Tony
Re: very small fonts @ startup screen / login
Quote:
Originally Posted by
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.
Code:
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
Re: very small fonts @ startup screen / login
Thx for the help!
:guitar: