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echo: rberrypi
to: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2019-08-03 16:26:00
subject: Re: RPi media center

On 03/08/2019 15:36, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 01:49:48 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
>  declaimed the following:
>
>>
>> Running Mate on an Intel deskto[p machone couled to a TV as  a makeshift
>> satellelite TV i was never able to get the fonts readable at a distance
>> no matter what I selected. I cant remember why but siomething happened
>> at large fonts level that made it unreadable
>>
>  What type of font where you using. Core X-window fonts were bitmaps, as
> I recall, and forcing them to a large size could result in lots of jagged
> edges.
>

No, that was not the problem. IIRC what happened was that icons on the
desktop simply didnt have space allocated for the text so it got
clipped



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