fonts have gone insane

[Florent Thoumie]

On Jan 15, 2008 4:02 AM, Mark Kirkwood <markir at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Coleman Kane wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm in the same boat here. It would seem that all of the fonts in my
> > GTK/GNOME apps are messed up now and I am left with replacements of some
> > core fonts. Seems to have coincided with some recent portupgrade, but I
> > can't figure out what has done it. I recently upgraded
> > x11-toolkits/gtk20 but the original poster mentions xfce...
> >
> > Trying to rebuild/install fontconfig...
> >
> > I tried the above removal of the /var/db/fontconfig directory which
> > helped out none.
> >
> >
> I ran into this with the Gnome 2.20 upgrade. I believe it has something
> to do with anti-aliased fonts being used instead of bitmap ones. I
> *think* it is to do with Xorg 7.3 rather than Gnome.... but there is
> Gnome stuff you can do that sorts it if Gnome is your window manager
> (see thread "Fonts, windows too large after 2.20 upgrade" in
> freebsd-gnome list).
>
> For other window managers I'm not sure what you need to do (there must
> be some xorg.conf magic - surely???). Maybe ask on the Xorg mailing
> lists? (and enlighten us when you discover the answer!)

Could be the DPI setting in Gnome (Preferences / Appearance / Fonts / Details).

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Florent Thoumie
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