Monday, December 3, 2007

How to get smaller-looking fonts on Fedora 8

When I installed Fedora 8, I thought it was quite slick and impressive visually in many ways. But, there was one thing that bugged me--my fonts now looked much bigger than they did in Fedora 7. It turns out that a default install of Fedora 8 sets a high dpi for fonts. To change this and get back to smaller-looking fonts:

  • Go to System->Preferences->Look and Feel->Appearance to open the Appearances dialog box
  • Click on the Fonts tab
  • Click on the Details... button
  • Change resolution to 96 dots per inch

That's it!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It turns out that aD3 Gold default install of Fedora 8 sets a high dpi for fonts. To D3 Goldchange this and get back to smaller-looking fonts: