Installed Kubuntu-5.10 on VMware, questions/problems

[Andrew Wallace]

On 06/12/05, Christopher J. Bottaro <cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm a long time Redhat/Fedora user who loves KDE, so I decided to try
> Kubuntu.  I installed it on VMware and everything went fine, but now I
> have
> a few questions and problems.


3)  This is my major problem.  All the fonts are tiny!  My xorg.conf file
> uses 1920x1200, but in KDE I clicked 'Configure Desktop', 'Display' tab,
> and changed my resolution to 1024x768 so it would better fit in my VMware
> window.  That shouldn't have anything to do with it, right?  I tried
> increasing my font sizes, but I feel that this is a cheap hack workaround.
> Also, it doesn't completely fix the problem because there are still some
> fonts that are too small to read (for example, in System Settings ->
> System
> Services).


It is most likely that xorg cannot identify the real display characteristics
when running under VMWare.
You may need to tell xorg the size of your display

'xdpyinfo' will display display information.
xdpyinfo | egrep '(resolution|dimension)' will display just the relevant
bits.
This will probably show 75x75 dots per inch before setting the size

Try adding a Displaysize option (in millimetres) to the "Monitor" section of
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.

e.g. excerpt from my xorg.conf (for my 17" Dell)
 Section "Monitor"
    Identifier      "vmware"
    VendorName      "VMware, Inc"
    HorizSync 1-10000
    VertRefresh 1-10000
#
    DisplaySize 372 230
#

Thanks for the help!


Hope this helps



--
Regards,
Andrew Wallace
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