Re: Fonts (Firefox/Windows & Firefox/Linux)

Tom Horsley wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:32:27 -0500
Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

the gnome font setup now uses some heuristic to
try and divine a proper dpi from the monitor size or other details

Yep. It uses the info the monitor provides about its size and
resolution. For me, that meant that it found I was hooked up
to a 1920x1080 42 inch HTDV monitor, and it concluded that it
obviously should be using 53 DPI, which resulted in most fonts
showing up about 5 pixels high. It took quite a while to find
the fonts setting dialog so I could manually switch to 96 DPI
and get fonts I could actually read :-).

As soon as I could finally see what I was doing, I submitted
this bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377651

There are many things you can do. The most straight forward is to re-adjust your Screen to a proper size. I am old and worry about seeing things so my 17 inch lcd has a 1280X1024 resolution. You can try lower resolution until the fonts are normal size.

I also use thunderbird and they let you make the font bigger and I did. I really doubt that what anaconda is doing is bad. It is rather nice to have the new version pop up with a pointer on the mouse and full size. This Ubuntu did with this computer. Never seen that on Fedora yet.



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