How do we change fonts now
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Feb 28 16:44:47 UTC 2011
Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said:
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/data/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings.gschema.xml.in.in#n13
> > and:
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/xsettings/gsd-xsettings-manager.c#n263
> >
> > So if you didn't much about with the default configuration (or inherited
> > it from a GNOME 2.x installation), we use the X server's DPI.
>
> ack. so it's X's decision to default to 96dpi now? Because that's
> certainly what happens; I boot F15 on my P and I get almost literally
> unreadable font sizes.
I don't know about 'now'... just did a brief test on a variety of machines
here running both older and newer OSes, and it defaults to 96dpi on all of
them (and all of them have EDIDs with geometry.)
Bill
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