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* Nikos Chantziaras (Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:32:21 +0300) |
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> On 10/16/2009 02:22 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: |
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> > I just updated from xorg-server 1.3.0.0-r6 to 1.6. After the upgrade I |
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> > see a lot of applications have now much bigger fonts then they used to |
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> > have (the fonts and font sizes of course are the same - they just appear |
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> > bigger). Examples are KDM, Konsole, most KDE apps (GNOME applications |
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> > seem not to be affected). |
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> > The increased fonts looks a bit as when I connect via VNC to the diplay |
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> > manager session (with the Xorg VNC module). I had the same effect |
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> > already when I tried to upgrade to Xorg 1.5 (which was why I had to |
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> > revert back to 1.3). |
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> > This is a VMware virtual machine with the VMware tools installed and |
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> > running. |
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> > What can I do to avoid the "font increase"? |
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> The best thing you can do with VMWare (from my own experiences) is to |
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> force 96 DPI in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Find this line: |
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> ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp |
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> And add "-dpi 96" to it: |
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> ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -dpi 96 |
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That was the solution. I checked the resolution before the upgrade with |
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"xdpyinfo | grep resolution" (Tip from the German list): 75 dpi. |
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Afterwards: 96 dpi. Setting it to 75 solved the issue. |
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I'd still like to know what exactly changed and if 75 or 96 is the |
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"correct" value. Nevertheless, I have Xorg server 1.6 running and it |
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looks fine. |
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Thanks, Thorsten |
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