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 1MzyhQ-0002E4-MP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:19:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0A71E075B; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB60E075B for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A22B405E for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:19:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[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 zz4iZ+H3HVFB for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:19:15 +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 5587EB48A6 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mzyh9-000814-By for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:19:07 +0200 Received: from nat.scz.novell.com ([213.151.88.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:19:07 +0200 Received: from thorsten by nat.scz.novell.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:19:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: big fonts after Xorg update Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:18:39 +0200 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nat.scz.novell.com User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.13 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 544b1a99-f54f-4012-8be9-4e82399f74fc X-Archives-Hash: 1af5be5e263965fa946c9beb5d5da366 * 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