[gentoo-user] Re: big fonts after Xorg update

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>]

* Nikos Chantziaras (Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:32:21 +0300)
> 
> On 10/16/2009 02:22 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >
> > 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

That was the solution. I checked the resolution before the upgrade with 
"xdpyinfo | grep resolution" (Tip from the German list): 75 dpi. 
Afterwards: 96 dpi. Setting it to 75 solved the issue.

I'd still like to know what exactly changed and if 75 or 96 is the 
"correct" value. Nevertheless, I have Xorg server 1.6 running and it 
looks fine.

Thanks, Thorsten