[pygtk] X11, font point sizes and screen resolution

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:30 PM -0500 12/13/05, spike grobstein wrote:
>I've been designing a program which uses GtkButtons with an icon and 2
>lines of oversized text (it's for running on a TV or similar) and have
>been testing it at 1024x768 screen resolution. I got a new monitor for
>that machine and have changed the resolution to 1280x1024 and now the font
>sizes are much larger relative to the icons.
>
>Now everything looks off.
>
>after comparing a screenshot from the 1024x768 with one from the
>1280x1024, I noticed that the fonts are the same size relative to the
>total screen realestate.
>
>is there any way around this?

WAG: the two monitors have different DPI settings (somewhere).
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