Billy Tallis wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:06:15 -0600, Christopher J. Bottaro > <cjbottaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Peter Arremann wrote: >> >> > On Tuesday 22 March 2005 11:08, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: >> >> I'm running KDE on FC3 using a Dell 2005FPW at 1680x1050. The problem >> >> is that it _looks_ like its running at a much lower resolution. >> > >> > Can you confirm your resolution? Execute "xwininfo -root" and look at >> > the width and height? >> >> Yes, the width/height is 1680x1050. >> >> Actually, I've always kind of noticed that similar resolutions always >> look >> smaller/sharper in Windows. Whats up with that? Its an extra $700 for >> the next highest resolution for my monitor...=( > > Part of that is probably the font smoothing that windows has, and part > of it is that Linux is detecting the dpi of your monitor and adjusting > font sizes accordingly, something that windows is not very good about. > You should investigate changing the font sizes or overriding the dpi. How do I override the dpi? Is that something I do in my xorg.conf? What should it be set to? Thanks!
