[mythtv-users] Project Grayhem Wide weird font size issue...

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 18:43:24 UTC 2006


On Thursday 12 January 2006 12:58, Justin Hornsby wrote:
> On 1/12/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > yea, I don't get it either... DPI, first thing I checked, but Xorg's log
> > shows
> > it setting DPI to 100...
> >
> > ughh.
> > thanks,
> > Steve
>
> Well Steve..  one thing you can check for is that you have the Tahoma (for
> the wide theme) or Verdana (for the 4:3 theme) font installed - if mythtv
> can't find the font it'll substitute its own choice in, which may be
> 'sub-optimal'.
>
> You could also try taking the menu text font size down a notch.. in
> theme.xml, line 40:
>
> <fontsize>21</fontsize>
>
> adjust that a little to see if that helps.  You'll need to quit
> mythfrontend & restart it to see any changes though.
>
> Aside from that, making the button area larger (higher and slightly wider)
> may help.. and that's defined in line 4 of theme.xml:
>
>  <buttonarea>80,200,390,338</buttonarea>
>
> Where 80,200 are the co-ordinates of the top left corner and 390,338 are
> the width & height respectively.
>
> I've been asked by another user to enlarge the button area, so I'll
> probably do that myself for the next version.

Tahoma! that was it, installed it and now my screen fonts are fixed. I'd 
suggest mentioning this on your web page since many people may not have it 
installed as its not one of the default fonts with X.

-- 
Thanks!
Steve


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