Fedora 11 – Low resolution?
July 9th, 2009 | 
Author: I’m not sure if it was just me that had this problem with Fedora 11, but after I upgraded from Fedora 10 the first thing I thought about the desktop experience was that the screen resolution looked quite low. On checking the settings via SYSTEM > PREFERENCES > DISPLAY, the resolution was up at maximum. It took me a while to see the problem, but it was the text size in the menus and on the icons that seemed huge.
Fortunately, this is an easy fix, and it makes Fedora look much better than the default setting:
"Low Resolution" default
"High Resolution" look with smaller font size
Simply go to SYSTEM > PREFERENCES > APPEARANCE and select the FONTS tab. From here you can choose the font face and, critically, the font size. I’d recommend that you drop this from the default 10pt to something nearer 7pt or 8pt. I use a Dell XPS M1210 laptop with Fedora 11 and it has a 12.1″ screen and a maximum display resolution of 1280 x 800.I think that 7pt looks pretty good.
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