[SOLVED] mageia-prime and fonts change

[SOLVED] mageia-prime and fonts change

Postby adhefe » Mar 19th, '19, 03:02

Hi,

I'm using mageia-prime at mageia 7 beta2. Depending on the choice of integrated GPU or dedicated GPU, icons and windows fonts change a lot.

I've seen posts where people talk about how nvidia read EDID and make adjustments to fonts correspondingly and how to avoid it but coudn't solve the problem
here yet.
This seems interesting since it would keep fonts configuration no matter if the user is using intel (saving energy) or nvidia (performance).

Does anybody have a working solution in mageia?

Thanks
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Re: mageia-prime and fonts change

Postby doktor5000 » Mar 19th, '19, 09:08

From what I remember, the drivers calculate DPI differently depending what you have configured for your monitor. You should be able to change that on the fly with xrandr:

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xrandr --dpi 96

or
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xrandr --dpi 120


depending on what driver you're using. Although from what I remember this will only affect applications started afterwards, applications that are already running will not be affected.

For a change for both drivers, have a look at https://github.com/ghibo/mageia-prime#troubleshooting
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Re: mageia-prime and fonts change

Postby adhefe » Mar 19th, '19, 18:35

Thanks, doktor5000,

I would like to have this at boot.

Mageia prime created a xorg.conf file. I've tried, and it apparently worked, uncommenting some lines at section "Screen" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf,

Option "UseEDID" "off"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"

As I said, it apparently worked, but in fact I don't know if this is the best solution. For example, I left unchanged the following lines at the same xorg.conf section:

#Option "DisplayDevice" "None"
#Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
#Option "TripleBuffer" "true"

I would be thankful if somebody can tell me if this is good or bad or if there is another alternative for getting it working at boot.
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Re: mageia-prime and fonts change

Postby adhefe » Mar 19th, '19, 18:38

Yes,

https://github.com/ghibo/mageia-prime#troubleshooting

has the suggested solution although with somewhat different lines ...
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Re: mageia-prime and fonts change

Postby doktor5000 » Mar 20th, '19, 08:35

adhefe wrote:although with somewhat different lines ...


Those are the lines that you uncommented, minus Option "UseEDID" "off" so what do you mean by somewhat different?

Please also mark this as [SOLVED] by editing the subject of the first post, thanks in advance.
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Re: [SOLVED] mageia-prime and fonts change

Postby adhefe » Mar 20th, '19, 16:16

... minus Option "UseEDID" "off" ...

That's it. Since I have a rather limited understanding of X, i couldn't know if the instruction above is essential or not ...
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Re: [SOLVED] mageia-prime and fonts change

Postby doktor5000 » Mar 22nd, '19, 15:13

Well, EDID is still useful so the system knows more details about the dimensions of the display you're using. You just disabled recognition of DPI data from EDID data.
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