Having problems after installation

infernalarch · 2013-10-12 04:29:21

Hello there, I just started using arch after a while big surprise for me the installation process has changed a bit so it was kind of hard for me to get back on track, anyway i just installed my system with xfce and installed the nvidia drivers but for some reason i couldn't change my resolution it was giving a max resolution of 1024x768 when in fact my resolution should be 1280x1024. Since i couldn't change it through the nvidia-settins i found a post with the following config for xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "DVI0"
    Option      "UseDisplayDevice"  "DFP-0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    Option      "UseEDID"       "False"
    Option      "UseEDIDFreqs"      "False"
    Option      "ExactModeTimingsDVI"   "True"
    Option      "ModeValidation"    "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck, NoEdidModes, NoMaxPClkCheck, NoVertRefreshCheck, NoHorizSyncCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck"
    Option      "NoLogo"        "True"
    Option      "DPI"           "144 x 144"
EndSection

that helped to get the resolution i wanted but now my fonts look huge, if i go to appearance settings it has a font size set to 12 but it definitely looks bigger than that. I don't know what the problem might be.

I'll leave a screnshot here so you can see what I'm talking about, hopefully somebody can help me.
Thanks.

http://i41.tinypic.com/2w4wrcm.png

Moderator edit: converted over size image to url. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code

Last edited by ewaller (2013-10-12 04:48:23)

lagagnon · 2013-10-12 05:30:15

It appears to me that your gtk settings need some work. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gtk

jasonwryan · 2013-10-12 05:46:45

Check that you have the correct DPI: http://dpi.lv/

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#1 2013-10-12 04:29:21

Having problems after installation

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Re: Having problems after installation

#3 2013-10-12 05:46:45

Re: Having problems after installation

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