[Wine] wine dpi too large

Tijl Coosemans tijl at ulyssis.org
Fri Apr 11 07:39:34 CDT 2008


On Friday 11 April 2008 05:38:40 L. Rahyen wrote:
> 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]
> 
> Just 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).

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?



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