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Re: Font problem after upgrading gnome-control-center



Am Samstag, den 22.09.2007, 15:29 +0200 schrieb Sjoerd Simons:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 03:02:31PM +0200, Amir Tabatabaei wrote:
> > [I have some Internet problems today and couldn't follow up the
> > discussion on irc, thats why move it to here. Sorry about that]
> > 
> > After updating gnome-control-center to 2.20 from incoming, I have very
> > tiny fonts all over gnome. Within gnome dpi is set to 75 and all fonts
> > are sized to 10. I can solve this problem with the following 2
> > approaches:
> > 
> > 1) set all font sizes from 10 to 12
> > 
> > 2) set dpi to 96
> > 
> > Which is the better way and is it the right way?
> 
> The best way is to set the DPI to what it really is for your screen..
> 
> > screen #0:
> >   dimensions:    1400x1050 pixels (474x356 millimeters)
> 
>  Is your screen really 474x356mm? Probably not (unless you have a 24" screen
>  with a very shitty resolution).. Which means X misdetects the size and thus
>  the calculated dpi. Which makes it a bug in your X driver instead of
>  gnome-control-center.

The problem seems to be that gnome-control-center 2.20 doesn't set 96dpi
as default anymore but leaves it blank and does auto-detection...

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