Re: fonts too large

[David Zelinsky <temp1111@dedekind.net>]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:11:39AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 20:37, David Zelinsky wrote:
> > I recently upgraded to woody (actually I ended up doing a clean
> > install, for reasons I won't get into), and now most of the fonts in
> > application windows are way too large.
[snip]
>
> from /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/README.Debian-upgrade.gz:
> 
> FONT AND DPI (DOTS-PER-INCH) SETTINGS SET TO 100DPI BY DEFAULT:
>
> This default can be modified by editing the following conffiles:
>         xdm     /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers           (see xdm(1))
>         xfs     /etc/X11/fs/config              (see xfs(1))
>         xinit   /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc        (see xinit(1))
> 
> The /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 files (see the
> XF86Config(7) manual page for the distinction) are not conffiles, but may
> also be edited to change this default.

I made all the recommended changes, and it worked!  Fonts now look normal.

After some experimentation, I discovered that the only thing that
really mattered was reordering the FontFiles in XF86Config.  This is
using gdm with Xsession (not using gnome).

Thanks for the pointer.