skype-2.0.0.72,1 && font size

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Saturday, January 22, 2011 a las 09:48:20AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió:

> El día Friday, January 21, 2011 a las 02:50:44PM +0100, Oliver Fromme escribió:
> 
> > When the dpi value is incorrect, i.e. too high, then some
> > applications will think that your screen is much smaller
> > than it really is, so they adjust the sizes of fonts and
> > icons to be bigger.  This is exactly the symptom that you
> > are seeing.
> > 
> > For a quick check, restart your X server with the option
> > -dpi 100 (or modify your xorg.conf appropriately) and
> > verify the font sizes in your applications.  If it's
> > better, then just keep it that way.
> 
> The -dpi flag did not work for me, but inserting the size into xorg.conf
> as 330 185 (mm) works fine and the fonts are now nice in Skype as they
> have been before lifting up this FreeBSD installation into a VM on the
> same laptop where it run before as host system.

This was said to early :-((

The dpi value is fine now:

$ xdpyinfo | fgrep dots
  resolution:    146x146 dots per inch

and mostly Skype comes up with 8p fonts, but sometimes it changes
back to ugly 10p fonts; it seems that there is some relation with the
following applications on the same desktop KDE 3.5:

Evolution 2.24.5
Firefox 3.0.7
Pidgin 2.7.9

until now I don't see the exact rule, but one of them changes the font
size in Skype (and in Pidgin, too);

	matthias
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