> I sometimes use Ethereal in 800x600 screen mode, but mostly 1024x768.
>
> I notice that in 800x600, the font is too large and not enough info fits on
> the screen. NetMon fits more on the screen.
Just out of curiosity, does NetMon adjust font sizes based on the screen
size? Or is it just picking a smaller font?
> Can we adjust the font for the display size at all?
We should be able to, if an appropriately-sized font is available.
> I guess that means having to figure out what display size we are on?
Either the size or the resolution. I'm not sure they're documented in
the GDK documentation at
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gdk/index.html
(there are many sections, none of which look as if they'd have it), but
GDK has
gdk_screen_width() - returns the width of the screen, in pixels;
gdk_screen_height() - returns the height of the screen, in
pixels;
gdk_screen_width_mm() - returns the width of the screen, in
millimetres, assuming the server returns a correct value for
it (unlike the size in pixels, which can probably be made to
reflect reality for certain, the size in mm may have to be
supplied *to* the server, and the wrong value might be
supplied);
gdk_screen_height_mm() - returns the height of the screen, in
millimetres;
(none of them take an argument; they return the values for the display
and screen GDK are using).
One could perhaps use that to compute the dots/inch resolution, that
being what's used, as I remember, in the XLFD names for most fonts.
>From that, one could try first searching for a font of the "appropriate"
size (in points, say, as that's what we currently appear to do,
selecting a 12-point font) at the screen's resolution, and then try with
a wildcard resolution, for example.
