Yes, you are on to the problem, between thunderbird, gmail and firefox, and gedit and terminal the fonts (same font ) display different.<br><br>First: thanks for the help, my laptop monitor is not as high res as your monitor,
<br>its 1280 x 800<br><br>Next did one of those command<br>rn@xub1:~$ sudo xdpyinfo |grep resolution<br>Password:<br>  resolution:    75x75 dots per inch<br><br>Next did that last command:<br>rn@xub1:~$ sudo xdpyinfo |grep resolution
<br>Password:<br>  resolution:    75x75 dots per inch<br>rn@xub1:~$ xrdb -q |grep Xft<br>Xft.antialias:  1<br>Xft.dpi:        96<br>Xft.hinting:    1<br>Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull<br>Xft.rgba:       none<br>---------------------------------------------------------------
<br><br>Xorg:<br>Section "Files"<br>    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"<br>    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"<br>    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
<br>    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"<br>    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"<br>    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"<br>    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
<br>    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"<br>    # path to defoma fonts<br>    FontPath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"<br>EndSection<br>Section "Device"<br>    Identifier    "ATI Technologies, Inc. M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]"
<br>    Driver        "ati"<br>    BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br>    Identifier    "Generic Monitor"<br>    Option        "DPMS"<br>EndSection
<br><br>Section "Screen"<br>    Identifier    "Default Screen"<br>    Device        "ATI Technologies, Inc. M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]"<br>    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"<br>
    DefaultDepth    24<br>    SubSection "Display"<br>        Depth        1<br>        Modes        "1280x800"<br>    EndSubSection<br>    SubSection "Display"<br>        Depth        4<br>        Modes        "1280x800"
<br>    EndSubSection<br>    SubSection "Display"<br>        Depth        8<br>        Modes        "1280x800"<br>    EndSubSection<br>    SubSection "Display"<br>        Depth        15<br>        Modes        "1280x800"
<br>    EndSubSection<br>    SubSection "Display"<br>        Depth        16<br>        Modes        "1280x800"<br>    EndSubSection<br>    SubSection "Display"<br>        Depth        24<br>
        Modes        "1280x800"<br>    EndSubSection<br>EndSection<br>============================================<br><br>I like using mono type fonts, ( reading if you know what I mean....)<br>where my glasses...<grin>
<br><br><br>As you can see, there is something weird going on.. it happen durning<br>a update a week or two ago...<br><br>Rich<br>So, what would be the numbers to entering into xorg..etc using my 1280 x 800 res.<br><br>Thank YOU...
<br><br><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><br>23-12-2006<br>Jelle de Jong<br><br>problem different font look between xfce, firefox, openoffice.
<br><br>xdpyinfo |grep resolution<br>        resolution:    95x96 dots per inch<br><br>xrdb -q |grep Xft<br>        Xft.antialias:  1<br>        Xft.hinting:    1<br>        Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull<br>        Xft.rgba:       rgb
<br><br>--------------------------------<br><br>1 - Remove old config file's:<br>rm ~/.config/xfce4/Xft*<br><br>2 - Create new settings:<br>Menu -> Settings -> User Interface Preferences<br>Font Rendering:<br>RECHECK all checkboxen with these settings:
<br>Use anti-aliasing for fonts<br>Use hinting: Full<br>Use sub-pixel hinting: RGB<br><br>3 - Go to<br>mousepad ~/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb<br>And paste in the last line:<br>Xft.dpi: 96<br>(always leave a emty line)<br><br>Looks now like this:
<br>Xft.antialias: 1<br>Xft.hinting: 1<br>Xft.hintstyle: hintfull<br>Xft.rgba: rgb<br>Xft.dpi: 100<br><br>Save and exit the Xft.xrdb file<br><br>4 - Edit xorg<br>sudo mousepad /etc/X11/xorg.conf<br>And paste in under Section "Files" (if it's not there alread):
<br>FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"<br>FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"<br><br>Looks now like this:<br>Section "Files"<br>        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
<br>        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"<br>        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"<br>        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
<br>        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"<br>        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"<br>        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"<br>        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
<br>        # path to defoma fonts<br>        FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"<br>EndSection<br><br>5 - Edit xorg add the DisplaySize property to the Monitor Section<br>        sudo mousepad /etc/X11/xorg.conf
<br>        Go to Section "Monitor"<br>        Calculate the wanted DisplaySize:<br>                My resolution is 1440x900<br>                width = 1440<br>                heigth = 900<br>                formula = pixelwidth/dpi*
25.4 and pixelheight/dpi*25.4<br>                1440/96*25.4 and 900/96*25.4 =<br>        DisplaySize     381 238.125<br>        Put this line in the Section "Monitor"<br><br>Mine now looks like this:<br>Section "Monitor"
<br>        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"<br>        Option          "DPMS"<br>        Modeline        "1440x900" 106.50 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -Hsync +Vsync<br>        DisplaySize     381 
238.125<br>        HorizSync       30-81<br>        VertRefresh     56-75<br>EndSection<br><br>Save and exit the xorg.conf file<br><br>Restart the system.<br><br>Tips:<br>1 - You can also test to use 100 dpi everywere<br>
2 - If openoffice gives you a hard time remove (removes al you openoffice settings)<br>        rm ~/.openoffice.org2<br>3- Use these commands to see your settings<br>        xdpyinfo |grep resolution<br>        xrdb -q |grep Xft
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