[mythtv-users] gentoo and font size

Jay Camp campjr at verizon.net
Sun Aug 24 22:22:35 EDT 2003


Install some good fonts (ie, bitstream vera and microsoft core fonts which
can be found in Portage) then run qtconfig and change your default options
there.  Also take a look on the Gentoo forums about making fonts better
looking and such.  Hope this gives you a few leads...

Jay


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cedar McKay" <cedarmckay at mac.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 9:05 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] gentoo and font size


> I'm giving gentoo a whirl after using Red Hat for a while. I had a
> pretty easy time with both the gentoo install and getting mythtv
> installed. The one issue I'm having is that all the theme's font sizes
> seem to be very small. I know that you can adjust the ui.xml theme
> file, and I have, but I'm wondering why the fonts were unreadably small
> at the default size on gentoo? The OSD fonts seem normal. If anyone can
> give pointer I would appreciate it.
>
> As for background system info:
> well, it is a pretty stock gentoo install. I basically followed the
> howto exactly, so I think my endpoint should be about what everyone
> else's is. I'm up to date with emerge. I'm running the nvidia drivers,
> same version as looked good on my RH install. My screen resolution is
> set to 800x600 same as on the RH setup. Changing the resolution does
> not seem to affect the font size.
>
>
> thanks in advance,
> Cedar
>
>


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