After doing an otherwise painless upgrade from r5e50, I have minuscule font sizes for much of the display text. The task bar on the desktop, the top window bar for xterm and firefox, the program guide, the "Watch Recordings" page, "Upcoming Recordings" page, and probably others are almost unreadable due to the small font size.

This was never so small before, and since it affects the desktop and firefox, its not a mythtv setting. I did try changing font sizes (both numbers and names like 'big') to no avail. I tried editing the theme file for blootube-wide, but this doesn't fix the desktop/firefox issues.

There must be a simple system setting somewhere that will fix this.

Also, the myth menu background colors appear to be in 16 bit color now, perhaps there's a way to fix the color depth along with the font size?

TIA for any help.

sounds like your display resolution is set higher than it was previously.

You will need to go into /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the default color depth to 24 and check which resolution are listed for 24bit color depth.

Do some searches for resolution and xorg lots of info on it.

Do you have the DPI set in your xorg.conf? You might try 100 x 100 (I believe the default was 75 x 75?)

Hmm, When I went from R5E50 to R5F1 everything suddenly got bigger; Maybe when I go to R5F27 this will cancel-out and I'll be OK again...

found that in the "Screen" section. Set DefaultDepth to 24 instead of 16 and the jaggies are gone. Onto the font sizes next!

Any luck with this one? I have the same problem - fonts were fine with my PVR350 in R5F1, but they're tiny after the upgrade.

I tried this from tjc's guide, but it broke things pretty badly, so I pulled it back out.

Try changing Sans Serif to helvetica in /home/mythtv/.qt/qtrc
You can also change the size int here (remember to backup first).

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I tried changing to helvetica, but the fonts were only slightly larger, and didn't look as nice. I didn't try changing to 100x100 yet, because they are a lot smaller than 75x75. In fact, they really look like 7.5 x 7.5. But maybe I'll try, and I'll post back.

I'm always reluctant to muck with a working system, although I've always ended up the better for it, so here goes!

I had a problem similar on a PVR-350 w/TV out. No matter what I did I could not get the dpi to 100. It would always stay at 75. Here's my solution:



The file now says:


All I did was moved the # to the other line and viola, all of the fonts were right again, everything worked again.

That worked like a charm for me. Moved the # to the second line, did a quick "pkill xinit" and voila! Thank you!