[pygtk] X11, font point sizes and screen resolution

[spike grobstein]

I thought that was the case, but it's not.

when I set my xorg.conf to use 1024x768, then 1280x1024 on the same monitor, I still have the problem. it's the only thing I changed in my settings. is there something else, maybe?



...spike
 
On Wednesday, December 14, 2005, at 10:55PM, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:

>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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...spike