Re: FVWM: FVWN on a high density System76 screen

Felix Finch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20200812, Dan Espen wrote:
>Recently I went from a 1600x1200 monitor to a 3840x2160 monitor.
>
>Fvwm was the least of my problems.
>
>Just go into your config and choose larger fonts.
>Search for the string "font" and substitute something larger.
>Here are the 4 lines I ended up changing:
>
>*FvwmIdent: Font "xft:Mono:bold:antialias=True:pixelsize=24"
>MenuStyle "*" Font "xft:FreeSans:bold:antialias=False:pixelsize=22"
>Style "*" Font "xft:FreeSans:bold:antialias=False:pixelsize=24"
>Style "*" IconFont "xft:FreeSans:bold:antialias=True:pixelsize=20"
>
>I also used the FvwmForm dialog to get FvwmForm to use larger fonts.
>You won't find FvwmForm in fvwm3.  :(
>
>An old config should work pretty well.
>Mine was born in 1996 and is pretty much the same as it was then,
>except that I changed to a more modern font syntax a pretty long time
>ago.

This is encouraging.  My old config did work, more or less, except for the fonts.  I remember trying some adustments, but not what, and had work to do so I didn't have a lot of time to fool around.  Maybe this will be my weekend project.

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