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Re: Tiny default fonts in gitk

From
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
Aug 23, 2006, 06:37 UTC
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Peter Eriksen writes:
> Is it just some X/Tk setting causing this, or is point 9 just very
> small?  This is under Fedora Core 5.  Changing these sizes to 12 gives
> the text the same size as in the rest of the desktop.  It would be nice,
> if that was the default.

First, check what X thinks your display resolution (dots per inch) is. If it thinks the resolution is 75dpi but your monitor is doing more like 100dpi that will make the fonts small.

Secondly, you can use control -KP+ and control-KP- to change the font size.

Paul.
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  1. Peter EriksenAug 11, 2006
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