Font size under X; question

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:02:01AM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote

> Are your fonts at 96dpi? Not sure if this will help you, though it 
> certainly improved things for me moving from Gnome to KDE.

  How do I do it for all apps, versus going into the options for each
app?
 
> Putting the following line in the monitor section of your xorg.conf (not 
> sure about XFree) and restarting X should make your fonts much more legible:
> 
> DisplaySize	423	318  	# 1600x1400 96dpi
> 
> This line comes from the following:
> 
> displaysize = <pixelsize>/96*25.4

  Where did you find that... pretty please?  It's *NOT* found in
"man xorg.conf".  Is there a man page somewhere that I've missed?  It
has improved things to the point where I might consider staying at
1600x1200 permanently.

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