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johnny · 02-21-2007, 06:12 AM

i think what you're supposed to do is set the dpi correctly in your xorg.conf file. but i did it the quick and easy way;

edit the /usr/bin/startx script and change this line:

Code:

defaultserverargs=""

to this:

Code:

defaultserverargs=" -dpi 96"

but this only worked to an extent, because once i set up a display manager (i use slim), startx is no longer a factor, so i had to edit which arguments were sent to the x server from slim, in the /etc/slim.conf file. if you're using gdm/xdm/kdm, simply editing the startx script probably won't work.. so you can either check out some settings/config files for you display manager, or fix it the other way (editing xorg.conf). here's the portion of the xorg page on the arch wiki that discusses display size and dpi

while we're talking fonts... did you do a sysupgrade on your arch setup yet..? 'cause i've read some complaints on the arch forums of how the latest freetype update messed with the way some people's fonts look. i haven't done an update in a while, so i still have the older version of freetype. so even if you get x's dpi set correctly and things are still weird, it could be freetype. that problem might have been rectified though. i'm not sure.

02-21-2007, 06:12 AM	#151
johnny Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upper Canada Posts: 1,276	i think what you're supposed to do is set the dpi correctly in your xorg.conf file. but i did it the quick and easy way; edit the /usr/bin/startx script and change this line: Code: defaultserverargs="" to this: Code: defaultserverargs=" -dpi 96" but this only worked to an extent, because once i set up a display manager (i use slim), startx is no longer a factor, so i had to edit which arguments were sent to the x server from slim, in the /etc/slim.conf file. if you're using gdm/xdm/kdm, simply editing the startx script probably won't work.. so you can either check out some settings/config files for you display manager, or fix it the other way (editing xorg.conf). here's the portion of the xorg page on the arch wiki that discusses display size and dpi while we're talking fonts... did you do a sysupgrade on your arch setup yet..? 'cause i've read some complaints on the arch forums of how the latest freetype update messed with the way some people's fonts look. i haven't done an update in a while, so i still have the older version of freetype. so even if you get x's dpi set correctly and things are still weird, it could be freetype. that problem might have been rectified though. i'm not sure.