wine users - Mar 2007 - How to fix Wine menu fonts that are too small

I just installed WINE and got it working to some extent, but the menu
and dialog box fonts are too small. See an example at this URL:
http://www.fixaim.com/temp/winecfg.jpg

After searching winehq.org and Google groups and various other places,
the only remedies that have been suggested have not worked.

One suggestion was to copy the fonts found in such places as
/usr/share/fonts/ttf and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts into
/usr/joe/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts

I did that, but that did not solve the problem.

Another suggestion was to run "wine regedit" in console and select:
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
Then change the value to adjust the size of the fonts.
In the 'regedit' configuration window, I also saw these attributes:

"FIXED.FON"="vgafix.fon"
"FONTS.FON"="vgasys.fon"
"LogPixels"=dword:00000060
"OEMFONT.FON"="vga850.fon"

But I cannot find those fonts on my system and I don't know how (or if)
to change any of those ... or to what to change them. I also found
those same configuration elements near the end of this file:
/home/joe/.wine/system.reg ... but I don't know if it is okay to edit
that file in a text editor ... and I don't know what changes to make.
Those configuration elements were right below the following line:

[System\\CurrentControlSet\\Hardware
Profiles\\Current\\Software\\Fonts] 1149426108

So, can anyone tell me where these menu and dialog font specs are
configured or defined and how to change them and to what to change
them?

joe (at) actionline.com 
Mesa, Arizona USA

joe@actionline.com wrote:
> I just installed WINE and got it working to some extent, but the menu
> and dialog box fonts are too small. See an example at this URL:
> http://www.fixaim.com/temp/winecfg.jpg
> 
> After searching winehq.org and Google groups and various other places,
> the only remedies that have been suggested have not worked.
> 
> One suggestion was to copy the fonts found in such places as
> /usr/share/fonts/ttf and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts into
> /usr/joe/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts
> 
> I did that, but that did not solve the problem.
> 
> Another suggestion was to run "wine regedit" in console and
select:
> HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
> Then change the value to adjust the size of the fonts.
> In the 'regedit' configuration window, I also saw these attributes:
> 
> "FIXED.FON"="vgafix.fon"
> "FONTS.FON"="vgasys.fon"
> "LogPixels"=dword:00000060
> "OEMFONT.FON"="vga850.fon"
> 
> But I cannot find those fonts on my system and I don't know how (or if)
> to change any of those ... or to what to change them. I also found
> those same configuration elements near the end of this file:
> /home/joe/.wine/system.reg ... but I don't know if it is okay to edit
> that file in a text editor ... and I don't know what changes to make.
> Those configuration elements were right below the following line:
> 
> [System\\CurrentControlSet\\Hardware
> Profiles\\Current\\Software\\Fonts] 1149426108
> 
> So, can anyone tell me where these menu and dialog font specs are
> configured or defined and how to change them and to what to change
> them?
> 
> joe (at) actionline.com 
> Mesa, Arizona USA
> 
That is the default font that I get. If you also have windows installed you 
could just copy the c:\windows\fonts files to the same folder in your fake
windows setup.

joe@actionline.com wrote:
> Another suggestion was to run "wine regedit" in console and
select:
> HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
> Then change the value to adjust the size of the fonts.
> In the 'regedit' configuration window, I also saw these attributes:
> 
> "FIXED.FON"="vgafix.fon"
> "FONTS.FON"="vgasys.fon"
> "LogPixels"=dword:00000060
> "OEMFONT.FON"="vga850.fon"
The suggestion is to select LogPixels, meaning to select a better value.
Double click on LogPixels to do that.
> But I cannot find those fonts on my system and I don't know how (or if)
> to change any of those ... or to what to change them. I also found
> those same configuration elements near the end of this file:
> /home/joe/.wine/system.reg ... but I don't know if it is okay to edit
> that file in a text editor ... and I don't know what changes to make.
> Those configuration elements were right below the following line:
~/.wine/drive_c/*.reg contains the data you see when you run regedit.
Edit it the way you prefer.

Daniel