jodef Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 The menu fonts in Knoppix are very tiny and I need to change it.My fonts are currently set to 75 * 75 DPI found this out using: xdpyinfo | grep resolutionresolution: 75x75 dots per inch try a different one by passing -dpi <value> to X when it's started.How do I do this exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 Hi JohannWould not know how to pass an extra parameter to the X start . . But is it not much simpler to change the font size in the KDE Control Center --> Look and Feel --> Fonts ?? Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodef Posted March 8, 2004 Author Share Posted March 8, 2004 Hi JohannWould not know how to pass an extra parameter to the X start . . But is it not much simpler to change the font size in the KDE Control Center --> Look and Feel --> Fonts ?? BrunoUnfortunately that doesn't alter the menu fonts already tried that;that is when I came across this solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 (edited) Then I guess you will have to set the default to boot in runlevel 3 . . . . log in and do: startx -dpi <value> ( Check "startx --info" or "startx --help" )What about another screen resolution ?? Bruno Edited March 8, 2004 by Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodef Posted March 8, 2004 Author Share Posted March 8, 2004 What about another screen resolution ?? BrunoWhere would I find the screen resolution settings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 In Knoppix ?? . . . . . I think there is an entry in the menu somewhere . . . you will have to ask Kelly ( Havnblast ), he is our Knoppix specialist . . . Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 PART 2Johann . . You can try Ctrl+Alt+ the "+" or "-" key . . . . in some distro's that works . . . Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranquilo Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 If you use startx to start X , try one of the following:startx -- -dpi 100create a .xserverrc file, and add:exec X :0 -nolisten tcp -dpi 100I'm not sure if these work with kdm + kde...hthtranquilo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havnblast Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 PART 2Johann . . You can try Ctrl+Alt+ the "+" or "-" key . . . . in some distro's that works . . . BrunoThat should work for resolutionI use the look and feel to change the font and font size -- you want to change the min. font Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodef Posted March 9, 2004 Author Share Posted March 9, 2004 PART 2Johann . . You can try Ctrl+Alt+ the "+" or "-" key . . . . in some distro's that works . . . BrunoThat should work for resolutionI use the look and feel to change the font and font size -- you want to change the min. font I tried Ctrl+Alt+'+' or'-' it didn't affect the resolution and the look and feel changes viewing fonys in mostly everything except the mozilla menu bar and that's where the fonts are really tiny.The suggestions above are the only things I came across for trying to solve it but had no luck.So I went back and tried a reinstall of Pclos I guess my one true problem with knoppix is that as a livecd the detection process is excellent the screen res and videocard are picked up correctly mozilla even looked great and showed properly on livecd why then on a hdinstall the correct settings aren't transferred I looked for a solution but couldn't find one I hope in 3.4 problem is corrected I think Knoppix is a great distro if the res think was such a pain I would've left it but for the little while I played with it last nite ended up with a massive headache.But thx for suggestions everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havnblast Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 Did you have the correct video drivers installed?I don't recall what your video card is but if nvidia, here are the steps I did - granted the 4363 are older files now: There seems to be a lot of people that use Knoppix and have problems getting Nvidia drivers to work. I was one of them and I researched many sites looking for answers and I tried many suggestions. I ended up reinstalling cause I would end up with a linux install that was toast after messing with it so much. I also had problems with other distros, but the one I never did have problems with was the Gentoo Live CD.So after doing some thinking I decided the answer must be on that CD and I dropped into my cd-rom tray and started looking thru it. I found two files:NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4363.tar.gzNVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4363.tar.gzI extracted the GLX file and installed that first and before I tried installing the 2nd file I went in a root shell and typed: *note make install to run"IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1" then"export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH"That eliminates the Mismatch error I kept getting so I extracted the second file than changed to the NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4363 directory and typed in "make" it than installed.Now it is time to do some editing in the XF86Config-4 file in the /etc/X11 folder you need to make these changes:Removed the following lines:Load "dri"Load "GLcore"And added the following line under section Module (if it's not there):Load "glx"Finally changed:Driver "nv"to:Driver "nvidia"2 more files to edit and you will be done:Edit this file /etc/modules.confAdd this line:alias char-major-195 nvidiaEdit this file /etc/modutils/aliasesAdd this line:alias char-major-195 nvidiaNow your done make sure you have saved all the files and reboot - upon reboot you should get the Nvidia splash screen - Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodef Posted March 9, 2004 Author Share Posted March 9, 2004 No it's an Sis card granted it is problematic and it takes some fiddling around to get it to work the Knoppix livecd shows great with it but on hdinstall the quality is not the same and seems to be the same drivers are installed anway there's a tutorial on installing 3D drivers gonna try it.I suspect the drivers provided are to just for basic viewingmaybe with some tweaking I could get it to work right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havnblast Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 I have no experience with that card, but for me it always installed the generic driversI did run across the same problem your having here:View Page*note the last post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodef Posted March 9, 2004 Author Share Posted March 9, 2004 Yeah that's the same problem maybe during the course of today I'll search thru the Knopppix forums again.It is definitely a mozilla problems I've come across literally hundreds of posts on this topic even think it's a confirmed bug on some systems from what I can tell around since 1.4 maybe earlier why doesn't someone fix it. Maybe I'll ask in forums but why would the viewable fonts be 100% ok on livecd but be screwed up on install the same drivers are installed that has me totally baffled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranquilo Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 You might try this:http://mozilla.org/unix/customizing.htmlIn short, you need to edit your userChrome.css file, which must be created in your mozilla profile. A userChrome-example.css file should be there by default. I believe the file name is case sensitive.~/.mozilla/default/*.slt/chrome/This may work for you: * {font-size: 4.0mm !important;font-family: bitstream vera sans !important;} hthtranquilo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodef Posted March 9, 2004 Author Share Posted March 9, 2004 Thx tranquillo that font thing annoyed me so much I blew up my Knoppix installation but I wil test this if you ask me Mozilla has some font issues in most distros.Pclos has the correct settings though it shows perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havnblast Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 Why not use Firefox instead of dumping the distro? Firefox rules over Mozilla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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