I accidentally put the wine font to 496 dpi, because im stupid, [Embarassed] so does anyone know a way to change all the settings back to default? [Question] please help me, PLEASE :P
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:52 PM, influensa <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I accidentally put the wine font to 496 dpi, because im stupid, > so does anyone know a way to change all the settings back to default?This is getting to be an FAQ. Try this: Open the file ~/.wine/system.reg in a text editor (gedit is one that I think is installed by default with Ubuntu) and look for an entry like> [System\\CurrentControlSet\\Hardware Profiles\\Current\\Software\\Fonts] > "LogPixels"=dword:00000060then change the value from whatever it's at now to 60.
On Thursday April 10 2008 22:52:14 influensa wrote:> I accidentally put the wine font to 496 dpi, because im stupid, > [Embarassed] so does anyone know a way to change all the settings back to > default? [Question] > > please help me, PLEASE :PJust run winecfg again. Of course it will be "cropped" but you can move it on the screen in order to reach buttons you need. In most cases you can move windows larger than your screen (and all other windows) with Alt+Mouse, that is press and hold Alt key and move your mouse - this will move a window under the cursor. Sometimes Meta ("Windows") key is used instead of Alt (this depends on your configuration of window manager). Therefore you can move winecfg with oversized fonts on the screen in order to reach all parts of its GUI. Explanation seems to be a little long but actually this is very simple and fast way (much faster than editing registry by hand). It takes just few seconds to change from, say, 480 DPI back to 96 (or whatever you want).
Tijl Coosemans wrote:> On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:11:30 James McKenzie wrote: > > > Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > > > > Maybe a dumb question, but why is this setting in winecfg in the > > > first place? Why can't Wine simply use the DPI info from the X > > > server? > > > > > > > Simple, the DPI setting may be incorrect. I've seen folks using > > small fonts (96 dpi) on screens with 1024x768 or higher resolutions. > > This would make some programs open into too small an area to be > > usable. Add to this that winecfg does emulate the ability of some > > systems to custom set the dpi value (I use 133 on my Thinkpad and 120 > > on my Mac because of the screen layouts, as I've stated in this > > mailing list before.) Thus this ability was retained and a default > > of 96 dpi was retained. > > > > You can set the DPI of your monitor using DisplaySize in the xorg.conf > Monitor section. I don't understand why Wine needs to be different from > other X apps when it comes to this. DPI is a server side setting, not > client side. Really, the only good reason I can think of is that, due > to bad API design and/or sloppy programmers, there may be Windows apps > which GUI doesn't scale properly on higher DPI monitors. For instance, > when font sizes are set in points while some GUI elements are measured > or positioned using pixels.You are correct. From my experience with windows over number of years if you try to set DPI to anything other then standard 96 - expect some programs do look bad/break completely. And if DPI set to something other then 96 or 120 - things break for lots of apps (not 1-2).