[mythtv-users] Font size in MythFrontend

[Donavan Stanley]

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.