Re: [Hampshire] Changing font sizes used by Tcl/Tk applicati…

2008/8/24 Nick Chalk <nick@???>:
> Tony Whitmore <tony@???> wrote:
>> Additionally, if one wants to set the default
>> font DPI for X to 75dpi, what should one edit
>> and how? Google tells me it should be an
>> Xresource but I haven't found more than that
>> yet.
>
> My (hand-built) desktop system sets the DPI in
> ~/.xserverrc
> exec X :0 -nolisten tcp -dpi 100
>
> I don't have a Debian box on at the moment, but I
> believe they have a system-wide xserverrc
> somewhere in /etc/X11.
>

Indeed:

~# dpkg -S xserverrc
xinit: /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc

Which has (this is unmodified, Sid):

~# cat /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
#!/bin/sh

# $Id: xserverrc 189 2005-06-11 00:04:27Z branden $

exec /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp

ATB, Peter