From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 14 2015 - 10:12:18 CDT

Hi,
  You might see if forcing the X11 screen DPI to be a higher value
has the effect of triggering X11 to use bigger fonts automatically.
Sometimes these problems are caused purely by X11 being unable to
correctly ascertain the physical pixel pitch of the display, and
you can sometimes correct the problem by manually setting the DPI
value for your display to whatever it should be, or to a value that
you can live with. Some related info can be found by googling
"force X11 dpi" and visiting the appropriate links.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:29:49PM +0200, Miroslav Krepl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thank you. I suspected as much.
>
> Do you please have any suggestions on how to make X11 select higher DPI
> fonts? I have been searching and trying different methods for hours to
> no end :(
>
> I have NVIDIA proprietary drivers and Linux Mint running mdm display
> manager.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Miroslav Krepl
>
>
> On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 23:20 -0500, John Stone wrote:
> > Hi,
> > There's nothing you can do on the VMD side, but you can change
> > the X server configuration so that it picks better fonts for your
> > particular display. If you have a high resolution, but small sized
> > display, you will want to ensure that X11 is selecting the 100+ dpi
> > fonts rather than 75dpi fonts, for example...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 06:14:36PM +0200, Miroslav Krepl wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > please, is there any way to increase the text size in VMD main menu and
> > > the various submenus?
> > >
> > > I am running at 1920x1200 resolution and the text size is already rather
> > > small for my taste.
> > >
> > > I run the VMD version 1.9.2 on Linux kernel 3.2.0-23.
> > >
> > > Thank you very much!
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Miroslav Krepl
> >
>

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