coverup Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 The dpi setting of my laptop screen always stays 120dpi even though I set Kcontrol to force 96dpi. Sometimes the resolution changes to 122x121 dpi. The quality of fonts is not too great either, especially on the external LCD screen - actually, it's worst I ever seen on a Mandrake/driva system, even with subpixel hinting enabled and typefree library from PLF. Those sadden changes in the dpi resolution make fonts look even worse, hurting my eyes. I used to adjust X settings in the xorg.conf file and was always able to tune fonts this way, but not this time. I read somewhere that the ntel driver apparently automatically resizes the screen to `an optimal resolution'. Is there a way to switch this feature off? I'd rather do it by hand in an old fashion way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 I had a similar problem in Fedora 8, whereby the fonts were weird. However, I'm using Gnome, but I did manage to solve it. Whilst: [root@esprit ~]# xdpyinfo | grep resolution resolution: 129x129 dots per inch I can go into Appearance Preferences, then Fonts tab, then Details button and change the resolution to 100dpi. Before, it was 129, like the xdpyinfo reported. Now, it's much better. Sorry, I don't know how to fix in KDE, since I'm not using it, but maybe there is a similar option. I too had also tried forcing in xorg.conf I think, but it made no difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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