Linux Font Scaling?

[swestrup]

Simple question, I thought: How do I set the default size of display fonts in Linux? My main complaint about Gnome was that I couldn't figure out how to do that. Now I've installed KDE as an experiment and I can't figure that out either. Note that I don't want to set my screen to low res to get large fonts, since that just messes of images and gives me bad pixelated fonts. I want a high res screen with large fonts (my eyes not being what they once were). How the heck do I do that?

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in GNOME, go to the font settings, click on "Details" and change the resolution there.... This is the overal screen dpi.

[sps.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately (or is that fortunately), the folks who designed X knew that you don't want to do this. Fonts don't scale - they get redesigned for each physical size, for what are apparently good psychophysics reasons (there have been papers about this in Visible Language).

Fortunately (or is that unfortunately), it's hard to find out the physical dimensions of an output device, so there's a twiddlable parameter for dots per inch. So hub's suggestion will probably do what you want!

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LOL. that is best thing I read today.


Next time check before talking.

[sps.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately (or is that fortunately), the folks who designed X knew that you don't want to do this. Fonts don't scale - they get redesigned for each physical size, for what are apparently good psychophysics reasons (there have been papers about this in Visible Language).

Fortunately (or is that unfortunately), it's hard to find out the physical dimensions of an output device, so there's a twiddlable parameter for dots per inch. So hub's suggestion will probably do what you want!