[NTLUG:Discuss] running on Linux: ViewSonic VX2250wm-LED

[M. Filio]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:

> (1) When viewing a Youtube video the timing numbers (how much has
> played/total playing time) are so small she has difficulty seeing them ... I
> haven't found anything to change that.
> (2) The icons in the title bar of a window or application are (she says) too
> small ... I can change the font size in the title bar, but not the icons
> (specifically for minimize, maximize, and close)
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks

I believe, if I'm understanding you correctly, I have run into this
when I was using a 52" tv as a monitor for a while.

It was a bit obscure googling for it, but I think you're experiencing
font scaling issues due to DPI (dots per inch). I did a whole lot
grabbing info everywhere and trying to calculate my tv's "true DPI" as
I understood it and in the end I added two lines to my xorg.conf in my
monitor section:

Option         "DPI" "96 x 96"
Option         "UseEdidDpi" "False"

The reason being is that when xorg communicates with the monitor (or
tv in my case) it really is getting the correct DPI information.
However, somewhere in the display code this messes up the fonts,
because it doesn't seem they handle it correctly. So the two lines
above tell xorg to ignore what it grabs out of the monitor and just
use the standard 96 x 96 everyone is used to.