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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2012 - 13:57:49 CDT

Can you guys to a screen capture so I can see how your VMD fonts
look next to your other windows? That would help me see if something
is going wrong with the FLTK/Tk font selection at startup, or if this
is simply an issue of just needing an altogether larger font. If you
could do a screen capture with VMD running, with the main window,
graphical representations window, and the VMD movie maker plugin showing,
that would likely answer most of the remaining questions I have about
how the fonts look on your machines. If you could send me a PNG or JPEG
of the screen capture, that'd be great.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 05:22:09PM -0400, PAUL NEWMAN wrote:
> I have the same problem. The fonts are too small in the menu bar. My
> screen is 15' inches and when I do
>
> xdpyinfo | grep -i dots
> resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
>
> Any idea how to increase the size of the fonts?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Albert <mailmd2011_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hello John:
> thank you for reply.
> I've got a 15" notebook. To me, it is still not big enough to see the
> fond altough it looks normal, I just want to make it bigger so that it
> would be more easier to watch. The TCL/TK font size is quite OK which
> is bigger than the VMD menu fonts.
> It would be nice if we have an option to modify the menu fonts by
> ourselves.
>
> thank you very much
>
> On 04/10/2012 09:11 PM, John Stone wrote:
>
> Albert,
> How large is the screen you're using? It seems odd to me that
> you would have a 144 dpi display at just 1920x1080 resolution.
> Is this some sort of netbook with a physically small screen, e.g.
> something with only a 10" to 12" screen? How large are the fonts
> used in the VMD FLTK / Tk windows as compared with 'xterm' or
> similar X-windows apps? Do you get any warnings from VMD during
> startup about missing fonts? It may be possible to force FLTK and Tk
> to use a different font by default, but off the top of my head I don't
> think it's trivial to do so without creating problems with the menu
> layouts throughout the program. I will have to look into it.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 07:08:23AM +0200, Albert wrote:
>
> Hi John:
> here is the output:
>
> resolution: 143x144 dots per inch
>
> my screen resolution is 1920X1080.
>
> THX
>
> On 04/10/2012 06:49 AM, John Stone wrote:
>
> Albert,
> What do you get when you run this command:
> xdpyinfo | grep -i dots
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Paul 

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