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Old 24-Dec-2008, 20:06
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Default Re: Ugly fonts

Quote:
Originally Posted by oldcpu View Post
I do note that the fonts in firefox can be completely different from what one experiences elsewhere on the deskstop.
Well, your Firefox screenshot shows that:
- Your GTK and QT background colors are really different (mine are also somehow different... a bug in qtcurve, I suppose, but not *so* different).
- The font in the interface is different from the one in the web render (compare the 'B' from "Bookmarks" with the one from "Breaking"). I didn't look in the CSS (I'm not a web dev), but I don't think the forum is forcing any specific font.

I suppose that's the "consistency" problem dcengija complains about. Have you customized it?


Quote:
Originally Posted by davideoli View Post
by putting this in the xorg.conf file (in the section "Device")
Code:
  Option   "UseEdidDpi" "false"
  Option   "DPI" "96 x 96"
I'm using Gnome with an nVidia card.
Up to where I know Gnome already forces a fixed DPI... but IMHO that's wrong. The DPI is a real value... I think even Microsoft corrected this wrong behavior with Windows Vista.
I want fonts in a size I can read them, nothing more. I don't want fonts to be bigger if I use a bigger monitor (or smaller, so I can't read them, with a higher resolution).
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