Re: Login Manager

[Bruce Park <bpark@dolda2000.com>]

Antiphon wrote:
> Bruce Park wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I've been trying to solve this problem ever since I did an upgrade on 
> > my system. Currently, I'm running KDE 3.2 in Sarge and ever since I 
> > did the upgrade, I've been having this weird font problem with the 
> > "login manager." You can view the screen shot at 
> > http://www.dolda2000.com/~bpark/snapshot5.png.
> >
> > I also was checking out /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers and noticed that the 
> > first line (that's not commented) looks like this:
> > :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7
> >
> > as where the old file looked like:
> > :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 75 -nolisten tcp vt7
> >
> > I actually like the new file better since fonts are bigger but I have 
> > a strong suspicion that this is causing the weird font error. I'm open 
> > to any suggestions on how to fix this problem. As I really don't know 
> > that 
>
>
> KDM by default is set to run X at 100dpi. Your fonts are ugly like that 
> because you have a nonscalable font. Change to a TrueType or Postscript 
> font for your system font and things will be fine.

Antiphon,

Thanks for responding. Where can I change the system font? I know I have TrueType 
fonts on my system but I'm not aware of where to find the settings for these things.

bp