[mythtv-users] 0.19 menu fonts too big

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/19/2006 12:58 PM, zoiks2004-ivtv at yahoo.com wrote:
> I've just upgraded from 0.18-1 to 0.19.20060226-1. 
> Now my menu fonts are too large (the high-level menu
> options).
>
> It used to be that I could adjust these by editing the
> DisplaySize values in Xorg.conf,

That is, and has always been, the wrong way to fix font sizes.  You 
should specify a DisplaySize value such that you get 100 DPI vertical 
and horizontal (see bottom of post for values).


>  but I've tried a wide
> array of values and it has no effect on the main menu
> screen font sizes

Good.  That means you can fix things properly, now. ;)

>  (though it does affect all the other
> font sizes).  I've also looked at menu options for
> font sizes, but changing these values doesn't help.

There will be a post on the dev list titled "Re: [mythtv] 
[mythtv-commits] Ticket #1549: Font size preferences are ignored in most 
places" that explains why and how to fix it (hasn't made it to the 
archives, yet).  The short version is that you need to edit your theme's 
"*ui.xml" files (all of the ones that end with "ui.xml", including 
"music-ui.xml", etc.  It should be self explanatory once you look at the 
file.

Mike



# DisplaySize width height
# Make sure you choose an aspect ratio that matches
# your display's aspect ratio.
# For 1920x1080 at 100dpi  (16:9)
#       DisplaySize  487 274
# For 1280x720 at 100dpi  (16:9)
#       DisplaySize  325 182
# For 1280x1024 at 100dpi  (5:4)
#       DisplaySize  325 260
# For 1280x960 at 100dpi (4:3)
#       DisplaySize  325 243
# For 1024x768 at 100dpi  (4:3)
#       DisplaySize  260 195
# For 800x600 at 100dpi  (4:3)
#       DisplaySize  203 153
# For 640x480 at 100dpi  (4:3)
#       DisplaySize  162 121