[mythtv-users] Font size in MythFrontend

[Ashley Bostock]

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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