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Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts



On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:27:10PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> After a long while, finally got GDM to work with Windowmaker, but the 
> system fonts are a little horrible - am trying to fix it.  After 
> extensive search on Google it seems that GDM sets the DPI of the X 
> server wrongly - anyone help me find out exactly where to set the 
> correct DPI?  I've looked into GDM and added "-dpi 100" to the bottom of 
> the config file where it has the server start command, but it changes 
> the font size of the text in GDM itself, but not in windowmaker - 
> application fonts are fine, it's those fonts on the menus like "File, 
> Edit, View" etc that looks nasty.
> 
> Thanks very much for your help in advance
> 
> Cheers - Piers
> 

I don't think its gdm that setting your fonts, but to test it out you
can stop gdm (/etc/init.d.gdm stop) and try running X using startx and
see if you still have the problem.

I believe its windowmaker settings.

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