Re: XFree86 4.10-4 and huge fonts

[ktb <x.y.f@home.com>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:18:03AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Sid at home, previously X fonts were a normal size (at
> 100dpi) where a 10pt font was roughly the same size as a 10pixel font.
> This looks about right on my monitor.  However, last night I upgraded to
> X4 4.10-4 and suddenly the fonts are huge!  A 10pt font is about 20
> pixels high! (still at 100dpi).
> 
> I can change the GTK+ font to half cure this problem, but at any time an
> application requests a specific font it looks terrible again.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?

If your 100dpi fonts are on top of your 75dpi fonts in XF86Config or
XF86Config-4 then swap them and restart X.  There are probably two sets.
Put the 75s ahead of both 100s.
hth,
kent

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