so far i installed mythknopp and it seems to work. but i can't configure anything on the Myth-Display-site, because i can't read the font. it size is about 1pt. how can i get it a little bigger?
Note: It is not the font on the console, it is the one on the configuration-site. that one with the 5 pictures.

It is KnoppMyth. Have you searched the forum?

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im sorry for that with KnoppMyth. Just mistyped it.
I already searched the forum before i posted this, but i didnt find an answer to it. maybe i oversaw something.

I'm really not sure what people are doing to cause this, but there are about 3 or 4 threads in the forum from people with small font problems.

i found some, but nothing of that matches my font-problem. they are about the font size of the tv-viewing, except one. thats exactly my problem, but there is no problem-solving. just a note search the forum. but there is none. if im to dumb to find the answer, then plz give me a link to it.

I'm one of the people having issues with my fonts going small on me and the setup options are only affecting the setup screens not the overall interface, program guide, weather info, etc.

I can post some snips from my ui.xml file if anyone can direct me to the specific area I need to look at, I'd like to edit mine up as a temporary fix until I figure out what I screwed up.

Thanks,

twylie

PS - I've got lots of gadgets and toys I've built/bought over the years, and this one is getting the best reception of any at the house! Thanks cesman!!!

/usr/share/mythtv/themes/themename is where you should find ui.xml.
You're welcome,

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i still got no solution on that problem and im trying to fix it now for about a week.

I am having the same problem. The fonts on my mythtv menues are really small. I was playing with XFConfig-4. I was working on adjusting the screen resolution setting. I have an nvidia set for twinview. Anyway, while I was trying different screen sizes, I noticed the font get small. Well, no amount of adjusting XFConfig-4 has managed to get the fonts to return to normal size. Also, if I log on as mythtv... and type startx, mythtv loads up with the correct sized fonts. It only has the small fonts when I start with gdm. I have also searched the mailing list. They made the same suggestion as has been made here and that is to modify the fonts in the ui.xml file. Well, that had absolutely no effect on the font size either. Yes I did edit the correct ui.xml file.

The problem seems to be related to the pre-scaling function. It seems to be scaling the fonts down instead of up. If anyone could explain to me how the pre-scaling function is executed, I will spend some time trying to figure out why it seems to be scaling the fonts down instead of up.

Thanks!!

hmm that is odd, but if it is to do with the prescaling then you may want to change your resolution, as it only prescales if the resolution has changed. I personally have never seen this problem, but a couple of people have reported it.

Last night while looking for something else I discovered that mplayer has it's own private font cache, and some quick research in the mplayer docs confirmed it. This could explain a lot of the "changing the setting doesn't change the displayed font" issues. I haven't had time to monkey with it yet, but regenerating the cache with the utility described in the mplayer docs might help...

I found the answer. I spent some time reading through the mailing list while searching for anything associated with scaling. Well, I managed to piece together a fix for the problem.

The problem has to do with display dots per inch…

To figure out what the system is set at you use the command

xdpyinfo | grep inch

My system was reporting 58x58 dpi apparently a good setting is closer to 100x100. In order to change the dpi you need to add the DisplaySize command to the XFConfig-4 file.

Here is a snip from the file to illustrate its application.

Section "Monitor"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Avitron"
DisplaySize 162 121
EndSection

Note, the parameters for DisplaySize are in millimeters.

Hope this helps others

This is by far the most effective adjustment I've tried. However using the dimensions of my TV screen in millimeters doesn't seem to be quite right.

Using the dimensions in mm results in a font that is much too small.

Using the dimensions in mm divided by 2 results in a font that is close, but a bit to small.

Using the dimensions in tenths of an inch seems closer, although the resulting font seems to be just a hair to big. This may be because I'm only measuring the visible area of the screen...

Bottom line, start with your screen dimensions in either one to get the ratio right and adjust (proportionally) as needed until the fonts look right.

Now I need to find the thread I started on this topic and link it back to this one...

Thanks atomclock!