[mythtv-users] Font Size too Big

[Jonathan Martin]

Thanks for all the help, but what seemed to do the trick was installing
the arial font family from the MS True Type fonts.  I find this a little
odd, since I changed all the arial settings, but it did the trick.  Out
/of pure curiousity, is there any reason not to run 640x400 on a standard
tv?  I was having some problems watching sports, and I removed the refresh
rates from my xorg.conf and the display defaulted to 640x400.  The
problems are gone, and the picture seems even sharper.  Maybe its just me.

BTW I did adjust the flicker control in the nvidia-settings tool.  This
helped a little, but during football games there were still noticable
"lines".  I also followed Jarrod's tip about turning on the setting in
myth for the vert refresh rate.  Niether totally solved the problem.
-- 
Jonathan Martin
www.niblet.us

> I have posted this here before (my XFree86-4)...
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Section "Monitor"
>  Identifier "TVOut"
>  HorizSync 30-50
>  # HorizSync 31.5
>  VertRefresh 60
>  Option  "DPMS" "0"
>
>  # Little Text
>  # DisplaySize     400 300
>  # DisplaySize     360 270
>  # DisplaySize     320 240
>  # DisplaySize     280 210
>  # DisplaySize     240 180
>  DisplaySize     200 150
>  # DisplaySize     160 120
>  # DisplaySize     120 90
>  # DisplaySize     80 60
>  # DisplaySize     40 30
>  # Big Text
>
> EndSection
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> Does choosing somethinge like 400x300 not make your fonts tiny?
>
> ToddD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Anderson" <andersonas at adelphia.net>
> To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 2:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Font Size too Big
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had the same issue with fonts being clipped and lines not being word
>> wrapped.  This was under all themes that I tried, after a upgrade to FC3
>> and
>> Mythtv .18.  I selected the tiny font under setup and this took care of
>> most
>> of the issues.  But myth weather was still clipping some fonts like the
>> temperature and the next day forcast was not word wrapping.
>>
>> I am using the Nuvola theme.  It did not have a weather-ui.xml file so I
>> borrowed the file from the Titivillus theme and edited it to reduce the
>> font
>> sizes until the clipping stopped and once the font was small enough word
>> wrapping started to occur again.   The tiny font setting didn't appear
>> to
>> work for Myth weather, and it looked like it was picking up some default
>> font size setting from somewhere.  So adding the weather-ui.xml file
>> appeared
>> to override these defaults.   I dont know if this will work for other
>> themes
>> but it worked ok on the Nuvola theme.
>>
>>
>> Hope it helps
>> Alan Anderson
>>
>>
>>
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