KDE Fonts on HDMI out

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Tuesday 24 November 2009 20:00:26 George Galt wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:03:29 George Galt wrote:
> >> I have an odd problem.  I'm using KDE as my "desktop" for my media
> >> center computer, running Fedora 11 x86_64 and the latest KDE version
> >> (4.3.3?) on an nVidia 9600GT using the nVidia 190.42 driver.  When the
> >> computer is connected to the TV via the D-Sub (standard VGA) out,
> >> everything looks fine, but when it is plugged in through HDMI, the
> >> fonts in KDE are enormous.  Both outputs are set at 1920x1080.  I can
> >> rescale the fonts in KDE (to something like 4pt from the normal 10pt)
> >> to make them look reasonable, but even then, some of the KDE apps are
> >> confused and appear as though they still have huge fonts (and so often
> >> scale off the screen) even though the fonts are small.
> >>
> >> Where should I start looking?
> >
> > Try xdpyinfo | grep resolution
> >
> > Jaroslav
> >
> >> George
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> OK, where did this come from??!!!
>  xdpyinfo -display :0 | grep resolution returns:
>  resolution:    305x305 dots per inch

Autodetection failed?

> (note: I'm ssh'ing in, so I had to name the display)
> 
> Where can I reset this to something normal like 75x75?

System settings, Appearance, Fonts, Force fonts DPI

Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik at redhat.com>
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