[mythtv-users] Text lengths

[Peter Lord]

On Thursday 15 Oct 2009 23:24:48 Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/15/2009 05:34 PM, Peter Lord wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 Oct 2009 20:07:03 Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >> This is most likely due to having an improperly-set aspect ratio.
> >>
> >> What, specifically, is your physical display's aspect (the TV/monitor
> >> screen's)
> >
> > I have a 16:9 widescreen TV
> >
> >> and what do you have set for X (DPI and/or DisplaySize--the
> >> output of xdpyinfo would show everything)
> >
> > screen #0:
> >   dimensions:    1280x1024 pixels (677x382 millimeters)
> >   resolution:    48x68 dots per inch
> 
> ...
> 
> >> and what theme are you using?
> >
> > blootubelite-wide
> 
> All that looks good.  I'm guessing you have a font server that's
> returning fonts at some square-pixel pitch (i.e. 75x75dpi or
> 100x100dpi), which is wreaking havoc with your much-less-than <whatever>
> dpi X settings and your non-square pixels.  Do the fonts look unusually
> wide, especially compared to a desktop system with square pixels?

No, not really


> The font server DPI could be set by anything from Xft.dpi (in your X
> resources file(s)) to fontconfig.

I don't have a font server (xfs) running.

 
> Also, since the blootube* themes use Bitstream Vera Sans, you need to
> have the Bitstream fonts installed.  IIRC, current *buntu is (and
> possibly other distros are also) installing DejaVu, instead, so if
> they're not providing a proper fontconfig replacement, you'll get some
> other (likely very-wrong) font, which could cause issues.

I did come across http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/396841 
- sounds like Bitstream Vera Sans should have been removed from the themes.

I'll tinker some more ...

Thanks!

> 
> Mike
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