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Zweitaktmotor:
Hi,

I am using TinyCore as an Internet video player on a standard TV. The PC is hooked up via a VGA-to-TV converter and the best screen resolution I found to work is 320x240x24 (option 4 on the VESA tool).

The problem is that when using Firefox (or any other program for that matter) all menu entries and buttons are much too large. Is there any way to reduce the system font size and perhaps also the screen elements?

Many thanks.

tinypoodle:
Perhaps you could try to experiment with the "-dpi" option of Xvesa?

Zweitaktmotor:
It tells me "Display 0 server is already running" - Does this mean I have to drop back to text mode?

Also (excuse this newbie question): Xvesa churns out a lot of help text, half of which disappears off the top of the screen and I don't seem to be able to scroll up.

In DOS, you used to have an option such as    /p    or   |more   or    >output.txt   -  Is there anything similar in a Linux terminal?


Many thanks.     

Juanito:

--- Quote from: Zweitaktmotor on July 19, 2012, 05:53:10 AM ---Also (excuse this newbie question): Xvesa churns out a lot of help text, half of which disappears off the top of the screen and I don't seem to be able to scroll up.   

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Juanito:
This (setting dpi) works for me (with Xorg at least) on a "standard" set up - i.e. the connection to the monitor is vga to vga or dvi to dvi.

Where the connector has a conversion, i.e. hdmi to dvi, then it doesn't seem to have any effect - even when Xorg.log reports the monitor dpi correctly...

I haven't tried a vga to tc convertor with linux, but the size is certainly messed up with windows  :P

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