/ Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
|
|> I upgraded my unstable distro recently (I'm not sure exactly when this started
|> as I've been running the same session for a week or two) and now all the
|> applications using Gnome fonts are using a large, bold font. For example,
|> the font used in menus in XChat, Mozilla etc, the fonts used in Gaim, etc.
|> are all large and bold.
|>
|> I've run the gnome-control-center and set the Font properties to "Sans 8"
|> but that didn't seem to have any effect.
|>
|> What/how do I make the menu/button font something smaller?
|
| What does:
|
| $ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
resolution: 120x123 dots per inch
| say? Recently on my system, something decided that my fonts should be
| 112x112 or something, which made most everything appear with *huge*
| text. I ended up modifying the Xservers configuration file for my
| display manager to pass "-dpi 100" to /usr/X11R6/bin/X to force 100x100
| dpi fonts.
It turns out that if I go into the gnome-control-center font configuration
and explicitly select a different font (Georgia 8, for example), things
"switch" to that font. Oddly, this doesn't seem to be persistent, I have to
do it everything I start a session.
Be seeing you,
norm
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