Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts

[Piers Kittel <debian@biased.org>]

Hello,

Here's the outputs from ps aux and the server settings for startx, kdm 
and gdm:

startx - fonts comes up fine:

ps aux | grep x gives:

piers      948  0.0  0.1  2300  644 tty2     S+   17:38   0:00 xinit 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
piers     1003  0.0  0.1  2972  872 ?        Ss   17:38   0:00 
/usr/bin/ssh-agent x-window-manager

ps aux |grep X gives:

piers     1231  0.0  0.1  2300  644 tty2     S+   17:41   0:00 xinit 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
root      1232 39.5  7.4 366416 38160 ?      S<L  17:41   0:03 
/usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp

gdm - fonts comes up as nasty:

ps aux | grep X gives:

root      1094 12.4  7.5 367204 38948 ?      S<L  17:40   0:04 
/usr/bin/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp -auth 
/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7

kdm - fonts comes up as fine (same as startx):

ps aux | grep X gives:

root      1412 18.4  7.4 366908 38628 ?      S<L  17:42   0:04 
/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth /var/lib/kdm/A:0-VPn5cw

Looks like KDM and StartX is using 100dpi while GDM isn't setting any DPI.

Thanks very much for your help again ;)

Cheers - Piers

Micha Feigin wrote:
> 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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