On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Felix Miata wrote: > Felmon Davis composed on 2017-08-03 00:57 (UTC-0400): > >> I'm also suffering a tiny fonts problem on an Asus Ux330u with an QHD >> screen. the fonts on the taskbar (kicker) and the font on the menu >> window of Trinity Control Center' are miniscule as are fonts on >> applications like LibreOffice, GIMP, Pan, etc. as far as I can tell, >> it affects all apps, whether Gnome or KDE. > >> the thing also boots to Gnome (Gnome or so-called Debian Desktop >> Environment and Cinnamon) and to Windows 10, no problem with fonts. if >> I were only sure which config files to steal from Gnome! > >> xdpyinfo |grep -B2 resolution --> >> dimensions: 3200x1800 pixels (846x476 millimeters) >> resolution: 96x96 dots per inch > >> I've tried various settings in fonts enabling and disabling dpi. does >> seem to do best with >> Enabled >> 120 DPI > >> using exegnu version. > > What version of GTK3 does EXEGNU use? If > 3.16, you might be experiencing: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757142 > and some of its progeny, such as: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269274 not sure how to determine this. if I do apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-0 I get: "Installed: 2.24.31-2" > Setting DPI in your TDE Control Center's fonts menu should produce the following > on your system: > > # xrdb --query | grep dpi > Xft.dpi 120 I get this too. (with '-query'). I notice the following: xdpyinfo |grep dimension --> 3200x1800 pixels (846x476 millimeters) xdpyinfo |grep dot --> 96x96 dots per inch > Xft.dpi does not apply to all of Xorg and Xorg applications. To enjoy 120 DPI in > all of Xorg, 120 must be applied /to/ Xorg. There are various ways to do that. I > do it globally in one of two ways: > > 1-setting DisplaySize in /etc/X11/xorg.conf* not sure what DisplaySize should be. I don't have such a file; attempting to produce it using X :0 -configure as root and with X shut down produces a segfault; it does produce a skeleton xorg.conf.new file. evidently I'm doing this wrong. perhaps this is enough for further trouble-shooting; what do I do next? (I prefer to set up an xconfig file.) f. > 2-xrandr in a global startup script somewhere in /etc/X11/. > > For those using a proprietary NVidia video driver, there exists an explicit dpi > option for the xorg.conf its installation created. An alternate method I do not > employ is finding the xinit script that actually starts Xorg and editing the > start line to include the desired DPI value. > > Done correctly, xdpyinfo will also report 120. > > Also if done correctly, and GTK3 version is 3.16.x or less, the global Xorg DPI > setting will make the TDE Control Center DPI setting redundant, thus > unnecessary. If GTK3 is >3.16.x, then Xft.dpi will ultimately need to be set to > match the desired setting, which can be done in /etc/X11/*Xresources or > .Xresources as well as indirectly in TDE Control Center DPI. > > I don't know why TDE Control Center DPI has only the three choices, but setting > Xft.dpi through other means offers choosing any arbitrary value, e.g. 168, 133, > 220, etc. Global Xorg DPI is similarly unlimited. > -- Felmon Davis "Life is too important to take seriously." -- Corky Siegel