From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyZoX-0000s8-Eo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:32:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2BF7E08D3; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD52E08D3 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF06B5424 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:32:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.175 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.175 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.576, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ih2kgaCLjiSc for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3ACB53EB for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MyZoI-0000bQ-Pi for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:32:42 +0200 Received: from athedsl-375630.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.19.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:32:42 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-375630.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:32:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: big fonts after Xorg update Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:32:21 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-375630.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090923 Thunderbird/3.0b4 In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: e56cef5d-452b-4665-92dc-3f3e35389be9 X-Archives-Hash: 9513aa8d5886b85e350b42a69d2090f7 On 10/16/2009 02:22 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > I just updated from xorg-server 1.3.0.0-r6 to 1.6. After the upgrade I > see a lot of applications have now much bigger fonts then they used to > have (the fonts and font sizes of course are the same - they just appear > bigger). Examples are KDM, Konsole, most KDE apps (GNOME applications > seem not to be affected). > > The increased fonts looks a bit as when I connect via VNC to the diplay > manager session (with the Xorg VNC module). I had the same effect > already when I tried to upgrade to Xorg 1.5 (which was why I had to > revert back to 1.3). > > This is a VMware virtual machine with the VMware tools installed and > running. > > What can I do to avoid the "font increase"? The best thing you can do with VMWare (from my own experiences) is to force 96 DPI in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Find this line: ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp And add "-dpi 96" to it: ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -dpi 96 Restart X.