Re: How do we change fonts now

[Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 08:52 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 11:44 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Adam Williamson (awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx) 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.)
> 
> Hmm. I'm sure it used to use auto-detect. The lack of a setting for it
> is still a bugbear for me, but not really a serious one - I acknowledge
> that the number of people who are going to know that they ought to set
> the DPI, and know what to set it to, is small, and most such people can
> do it with dconf anyway.
> 
> (I still think we should consider using auto-detected DPI by default,

Which is what it does (to the best of its abilities).

> though. Laptops are increasingly coming with displays featuring
> significantly higher than 96dpi resolution; I'm wondering when the first
> 2k LCDs will hit.)

You can increase the DPI of the screen in "Universal Access" -> "Larger
text".

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