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OBLiQUE

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[SOLVED] Gnome 3 and DPI

i have 1920x1080 resolution and fonts are very small.. i searched how i can change DPI in Gnome 3 but i didn't find anything, also i tried to change it through xorg.conf but Gnome overrides it..
my last idea was to change font size, but in some applications are again too small (e.g. chromium, skype)..

any ideas?

Last edited by OBLiQUE (2011-06-15 17:22:50)

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Wey

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 and DPI

You can change your fonts using the gnome-tweak-tool package.

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 and DPI

it used to be in gsettings org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings but they dropped it

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OBLiQUE

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 and DPI

@wonder THANKS!! you inspired me...

solution:

i went through the xsettings plugin code and i saw that they hard-coded the DPI to 96... so i changed it from there..

howto:

% sudo pacman -S abs
% sudo abs
% cp -r /var/abs/extra/gnome-settings-daemon ./
% cd gnome-settings-daemon
% makepkg -o

edit src/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0.2/plugins/xsettings/gsd-xsettings-manager.c

and change this:

#define DPI_FALLBACK 96

to this (if you want 120 DPI)

#define DPI_FALLBACK 120

save it and do:

% makepkg -e
% makepkg -i

relogin

you can remove gnome-settings-daemon folder after this...

enjoy

Last edited by OBLiQUE (2011-06-15 20:13:03)

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shadyabhi

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 and DPI

Actually, there is a setting. Open dconf-editor and goto /org/gnome/desktop/interface/text-scaling-factor & change the scaling (for ex 0.9 was fine for me).

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OBLiQUE

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 and DPI

I tried it before but some fonts didn't changed..

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OBLiQUE

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 and DPI

shadyabhi is right. i don't know why it didn't work the first time. =/

anyway, if someone want 120 DPI must do the following:

120.0/96.0 = 1.25

open dconf-editor, goto org.gnome.desktop.interface and change text-scaling-factor to 1.25

restart gnome if needed

Last edited by OBLiQUE (2011-11-26 10:34:04)

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