KDE Fonts on HDMI out

[George Galt]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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>> > Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik at redhat.com>
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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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>
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Thanks.  That works.