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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Q: DECterm fonts change (100dpi) after Motif installation.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.180516.592@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 01:05:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.112257.411@vms.huji.ac.il>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1992Jul17.112257.411@vms.huji.ac.il>, yehavi@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
- > [under V5.5 with Motif 1.0A] the new little [DECterm] font is the same as
- > the old big font. The new big font is
- > a huge thing (which is almost unuseable, except from lectures...) and the old
- > little-font (which allowed us to use little windows) has gone. Any idea why is
- > the change and how to restore the old behavior?
-
- I don't know why it changed, but here's how to fix it: In SYS$MANAGER, copy
- DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.TEMPLATE to *.COM, and edit the latter so that for
- the affected workstations the command
-
- $ DECW$SERVER_DENSITY == 75
-
- is executed. Reboot.
-
- This effectively lies to anybody who asks and tells them that you have a 75 dpi
- monitor. So the old, smaller fonts are selected. I don't quite understand the
- logic of this, but that's what it does. Then you can have, for example, four
- non-overlapping 24x80 DECterms (two with condensed font, two with normal). Or a
- 48x80 with normal font, and two 24x80 with condensed. Everything else, starting
- with the login window, gets smaller too, so you can more effectively use the
- additional pixels on a 1280x1024 screen. (Which you need to do, because Motif
- gobbles lots of pixels for "overhead" like the menu bar, the resize borders,
- etc., etc., etc.)
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- Chair, VMS Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VAX Systems SIG
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