Menu font sizes

[Benjamin Rossen]

David

All the fonts given by " * dpi: nn " is a bit mapped font. This one is made 
for 96 x 96 pixels letter size. Do not remove them all, because these are 
needed for your shell. If you remove them all, then your system shall be 
broken, and you might have to do a total re-install; it won't even boot 
without the x fonts. 

Nimbus Sans L is a true type font.  

The problem is that the applications look for a font that seems the nearest to 
the specification. You may notice, for example, that some web sites give well 
sized and nicely anti-aliased rendering, and others come up with tiny, 
aliased text; and some are mixed (Amazon.com comes up mixed).  That is 
because the browser is using the x.dip fonts. It should not. The same goes 
for your menus and so on. It doesn't do that in Red Hat. It does in Mandrake 
10.1 and apparently also in Gentoo. Well, I haven't been able to get my 
Mandrake working correctly, so I went back to Red Hat (despite some other 
problem with Fedora 2 which I now take to be the lesser of the evils). 

I hope you have more luck than I did. 

Benjamin 



On Sunday 02 January 2005 18:00, David Corbin wrote:
> More info.  I found that I have an "Xft.dpi: 96" setting in my .Xdefaults
> file.  If I remove it, I get larger fonts "all around", but they look like
> total crap (as if a bitmap font were scaled up, but I believe I have
> selected a scalable font (Nimubs Sans L).
>
> Is there no way to log information about what fonts are being used?
>
> David
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