Installing and Using Applications
Legibility of Text on a Small Screen
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SPARCbook Portable Workstation User Guide
For example, your application may require a 1024 x 768 resolution
display, while you have a built-in display with a 800 x 600 pixel
resolution. The emulated frame buffer means that you can set the
Xserver resolution to 1024 x 768 to support the application but set the
display hardware to drive the internal 800 x 600 display. See “Display
Interface Operating Modes” on page 11-3.
When using an emulated frame buffer, part of the displayed image may
extend beyond the edge of the screen. The SPARCbook’s pan and zoom
facilities can be used to move around the image and overcome this
effect. See “Pan and Zoom” on page 11-4.
Legibility of Text on a Small Screen
When using some display resolutions, you may find that text elements
within windows and menus become very small. Both OpenWindows
and CDE allow you to increase the size of text used in windows, menus
and alert messages.
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Changing Text Size in OpenWindows
To change the font size used in OpenWindows, select
Workspace
Properties
from the Workspace menu and then select Fonts from the
Category menu. Within the fonts category window, select the required
font style and size.
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Changing Text Size in CDE
To change the font size used in CDE, select the Style Manager icon
from the Front Panel and then select the Font icon from the Style
Manager window. In the Font window, select the required font size and
then click
OK
.
The change takes effect immediately for applications launched after the
change is made. However, to make the change take effect for CDE
itself, you must exit and then re-enter CDE.
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