I have a question about configuring font sizes in TDE Control Centre. I would expect that setting a given font size under a given screen resolution will always produce the same rendering result. That however is not the case - see attached screenshots. These were taken on two different machines running a FHD resolution. As you can see font sizes are set to be identical on both system but the results of font rendering are totally different between the systems. I am guessing that this is because the rendering engine is trying to somehow compensate for different physical sizes of the actual screens (15,6" on the laptop vs. 24" on the desktop) but the end result is far from what I want. There's a setting to force a font DPI of either 96 or 120 and the result is that it indeed makes the font on the laptop much much smaller and seemingly consistent with what the desktop shows. I would, however, want things the other way around, i.e. set the desktop to the same rendering results as on the laptop. Any way I can set a DPI different than the predefined options?
Janek
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Anno domini 2020 Fri, 17 Jul 11:40:55 +0100 Janek Stolarek scripsit:
I have a question about configuring font sizes in TDE Control Centre. I would expect that setting a given font size under a given screen resolution will always produce the same rendering result. That however is not the case - see attached screenshots. These were taken on two different machines running a FHD resolution. As you can see font sizes are set to be identical on both system but the results of font rendering are totally different between the systems. I am guessing that this is because the rendering engine is trying to somehow compensate for different physical sizes of the actual screens (15,6" on the laptop vs. 24" on the desktop) but the end result is far from what I want. There's a setting to force a font DPI of either 96 or 120 and the result is that it indeed makes the font on the laptop much much smaller and seemingly consistent with what the desktop shows. I would, however, want things the other way around, i.e. set the desktop to the same rendering results as on the laptop. Any way I can set a DPI different than the predefined options?
Janek
DPI is vally of tears.
You can set your preferred DPI value in ~/.trinity/share/config/kcmfonts: forceFontDPI=96
There's also a DPI setting in ~/.trinity/share/config/startupconfig, but it's commented out on my system: # kcmfonts General forceFontDPI 0
Anyway, DIP different than 96 will notdo what you want fpr bitmapped fonts (if you have bitmapped fonts enabled).
Nik
Thanks. I realized that setting DPI to 120 on both machines seems to be giving me the same rendering results. I didn't notice this at first since I had to logout for the changes to take full effect. Nevertheless, it's still useful to know the location of DPI settings so thanks again!
Janek
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With and without forcing DPI in TCC, what do these report on each system?
xrdb -query | grep dpi xrandr | egrep 'onnect|creen|*' | grep -v disconn | sort -r xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimen|ution'
What DPI does Konq report on http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html when using the KHTML engine and DPI is not forced in TCC or via any of Dr Klepp's suggestions?
xrdb -query | grep dpi
Without DPI forcing it returns nothing, with DPI forcing it returns the forced DPI (96/120)
xrandr | egrep 'onnect|creen|*' | grep -v disconn | sort -r
On laptop:
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 DP-4 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm 1920x1080 60.02*+ 48.00
On desktop more or less the same but the screen dimensions are 527mm x 296mm
xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimen|ution'
On laptop:
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (341x190 millimeters) resolution: 143x144 dots per inch
On desktop:
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (530x301 millimeters) resolution: 92x91 dots per inch
Note that the on desktop I have 120 DPI set in TCC, whereas on laptop I don't force any DPI at the moment.
What DPI does Konq report on http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html when using the KHTML engine and DPI is not forced in TCC or via any of Dr Klepp's suggestions?
The page reports the same DPI as xdpyinfo (143 on laptop, 92 on desktop), regardless of what is set in TCC.
Janek
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