small fonts in new gdm

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 23:27, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:52:13PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 21:50, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > I just got the new gnome-2.4 up and running. The first thing I
> > > noticed is that the fonts in gdm are tiny, unlike in the previous
> > > version. I tried setting a different theme but that did not
> > > help. Also, the fonts in the logout dialog of a gnome session are
> > > also extremely tiny.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to increase the size of those fonts?
> >
> > Funny thing is, mine look quite huge on my ATI desktop, and quite
> > small on my ATI laptop.  I haven't bothered to track this down, but
> > you might be able to affect the fonts with a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 for root.
> > I'd be interested in knowing your results.
> 
> Well, I tried restarting gdm via the startup script in
> /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d, but that did not help.  I needed to reboot for
> another reason and when gdm came back up the theme I had previously set
> was now in effect and the fonts were now a normal size.  I do not know
> why it did not take effect before. Perhaps a gdm process did not get
> killed by 'gdm.sh stop' and was still hanging around.
> 
> However, although the fonts looked normal again, the keyboard could not
> get focus in the login field and thus I could not login nor switch vtys.
> I could select the reboot option with the mouse however.  After playing
> around with this a bit, it turns out that gdm2-2.4.4.1_1 can be started
> from /etc/ttys (as gdm1 could) and the keyboard focus problem does not
> happen.  At least it works here on my -current system.  Starting from
> the startup script does not work (keyboard focus problem).

Works for me on two -CURRENT machines.  Did you copy the
factory-gdm.conf over gdm.conf?  Though, it is good news that gdm now
works out of /etc/ttys again.

Joe

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