Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:04:56AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> 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
I just played with something else my self and noticed the difference
with the dpi. The thing is the smaller the dpi the smaller the fonts
you will get. Try setting it to "-dpi 75" instead of "-dpi 100", could
be that 100 is your default for gdm and 75 for kdm.
> > 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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