Re: tlug: monitor settings

["Dmytro Koval'ov" <kov@example.com>]

> Hello all,
> 
> I just installed RedHat 6.1 on my machine but something went wrong. The
> resolution of the monitor is impressive but everything is displayed so tiny
> that my eyes hurt after five seconds. Pressing CTRL-ALT-+ repeatedly gives
> only scambled up displays until I am back to square one. I set all fonts of
> KDE to very large, but I cannot change everything I wanted with this
> strategy. Which settings do I have to change to fix this CTRL-ALT-+ not
> working properly? Or which manpages do I have to read?

You might want to change your fonts to 100 dpi if they set to 75 dpi. 

Dependant on whether you are using X font server or not it can be done 
in one of two places:- /etc/X11/XF86Config (no xfs ) or 
/etc/X11/fs/config (with xfs).

You can tell that you're using xfs if you have line like:
    FontPath   "unix/:-1"

in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. If there's a list of font directories 
in XF86Config instead, then X doesn't use font server.

In either case you'll see in config file lines like:

(/etc/X11/fs/config)
catalogue = 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,

Change order of lines 75dpi and 100dpi:

catalogue = 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,

Hope this will help

Regards

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