<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thursday 12 January 2006 12:58, Justin Hornsby wrote:<br>> On 1/12/06, Steve Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > yea, I don't get it either... DPI, first thing I checked, but Xorg's log
<br>> > shows<br>> > it setting DPI to 100...<br>> ><br>> > ughh.<br>> > thanks,<br>> > Steve<br>><br>> Well Steve.. one thing you can check for is that you have the Tahoma (for<br>
> the wide theme) or Verdana (for the 4:3 theme) font installed - if mythtv<br>> can't find the font it'll substitute its own choice in, which may be<br>> 'sub-optimal'.<br>><br>> You could also try taking the menu text font size down a notch.. in
<br>> theme.xml, line 40:<br>><br>> <fontsize>21</fontsize><br>><br>> adjust that a little to see if that helps. You'll need to quit<br>> mythfrontend & restart it to see any changes though.
<br>><br>> Aside from that, making the button area larger (higher and slightly wider)<br>> may help.. and that's defined in line 4 of theme.xml:<br>><br>> <buttonarea>80,200,390,338</buttonarea>
<br>><br>> Where 80,200 are the co-ordinates of the top left corner and 390,338 are<br>> the width & height respectively.<br>><br>> I've been asked by another user to enlarge the button area, so I'll<br>
> probably do that myself for the next version.<br><br>Tahoma! that was it, installed it and now my screen fonts are fixed. I'd<br>suggest mentioning this on your web page since many people may not have it<br>installed as its not one of the default fonts with X.
</blockquote><div><br>Hmm... I'm sitting in very much the same situation as you were, only having installed the font from an rpm I found on the net things havent changed. I was just wondering where the font was stored on your system since it fixed the issue - the rpm I installed threw Tahoma and the other 'Microsoft' fonts in /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/ (I'm running FC4 btw).
<br><br>Cheers,<br>/drdaz<br></div><br></div>