[mythtv-users] Font size in MythFrontend

[Jim Kusznir]

OK, so I verified that my X server is running at 75x75 dpi, so that's a 
problem.

Unfortunately, I'm still unclear as to how to use the DisplaySize (or 
other means) to get it to come up at 100dpi.

In Paul's message, he shows:

DisplaySize       203   152     # mm

I get the impression that thoes numbers are mili-meters by his comment.  
If so, that can't be the size of his display, so I'm still left with how 
to deturmine what the proper value to insert there is.

Also, are there other steps or actions I should take to get my xserver 
running at 100 dpi?

Please forgive my ignorance in this area; I've been using linux for 
many, many years, but much of it was command line stuff, and I never got 
very good at "tweaking" my xservers to look good or use dri, OpenGL, or 
other means of acceleration/quality enhancement, so much of this is new 
to me.

Thanks again for the help!

--Jim

james meyer wrote:

>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.
>>>      
>>>