I’m trying to use the windows fonts on my linux machine. I’ve found a nice tutorial which suggests to change the dpi to 96x96 (windows default).
It seems that i’m not able to change the dpi. I’ve tried with sax2 => no luck. Manually editing the xorg.conf file => no luck. My dpi remain always the same. I’ve logged out even rebooted. Same.
xdpyinfo | grep dimen
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (443x249 millimeters)
xdpyinfo | grep resol
resolution: 92x92 dots per inch
I’ve changed the dimensions to 423x238 mm. I should get a 96x96 dpi with these but no. After restarting, xdpyinfo shows the same old settings.
I discovered that properly configured drivers don’t allow custom settings of the type i was attempting. The “Force fonts DPI” option does the trick tough.
Man, you guys are fast with the replies. I start loving openSUSE even more.
in kdmrc. That way the dpi setting also affects the login screen (in contrast to the solution presented by Jonathan_R). Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to work/have no effect with openSUSE (11.2). Any ideas/suggestions why? Or a workaround?