font size in other window managers

Nikita V. Youshchenko yoush at debian.org
Tue Jun 23 18:02:40 CEST 2009


> Hi,
>
> I'm playing with other window managers in Om2009, like matchbox and
> icewm.
>
> All the apps that I run use insanely small fonts and buttons. Same as
> when you run them in pure X. Does anyone have an idea how to change this
> behaviour? Is it through some env variables?

Try to start X with different -dpi values.

I use -dpi 145 and it's a good compromise.



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