[mythtv-users] Font size in MythFrontend

[james meyer]

xdpyinfo |grep resolution

That will tell you the dpi that X is running at.
-jm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Bostock" <abostock at gmail.com>
To: "Donavan Stanley" <geckofiend at gmail.com>, "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Font size in MythFrontend
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:28:56 +0000

> 
> How do you know that the size you put (should be the actual size of
> the screen) generates 100 dpi?
> 
> Ash.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:52:22 -0500, Donavan Stanley
> <geckofiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:11:20 -0600, Paul Gratz <pgratz at gratz1.com> wrote:
> > > Took me alot of searching and trying things to find out but what is
> > > going on is that MythTV scales the font size dependent on what size it
> > > thinks the screen physically is (so it gets a consistent dots per inch).
> > > To change the dpi of the screen you have to set DisplaySize in the xorg
> > > or XF86Config files. I added this line:
> > >
> > >        DisplaySize       203   152     # mm
> > >
> > > To the Monitor section and it fixed it for me.  Try to get a size that
> > > is approximately the size of your screen.
> >
> > You also need to use a size that generates 100 dpi.  Otherwise things
> > still will not look right or be sized as intended by the theme
> > designer.
> >
> >
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