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Subject: Re: Blurry fonts in X (~ 10-12pt) From: Tony Nugent <tony@growzone.com.au> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 09:06:05 +1000 On Mon Nov 01 1999 at 15:49, Riyad Kalla wrote: > When I am in X, at 1600x1200 with a Matrox Mill2 AGP, and a > 19" Viewsonic G790, smaller fonts that would otherwise look > fine underwindows (about a 10pt or 12pt courier) are > indistinguisably blurry, its starting to REALLY bother my > eyes, and I was curious how I could correct this > blurryness? I think I read a while back about someone > increasing the DPI for their XServer... I am not sure if > this is an optimal fix, I would like to hear some > suggestions that people have tried and worked. > > I am running a clean stock install of RH 6.1 There was a discussion only recently about this very point (wrt how the fonts looked in netscape). Try starting your X server with the -dpi parameter, eg: startx -- -bpp 32 -dpi 96 & I wasn't aware of this until the discussion came up, and after trying it, it has made a big difference here. ===