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Holly Bostick wrote: |
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>Stewart Taylor schreef: |
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>>Hi All |
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>>I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed |
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>>Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small |
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>>compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware |
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>>under Suse 8.0 all text displays a little over half the size. this |
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>>affects KDE apps and non KDE apps the same. Firefox text on menus and |
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>> the like is so small that it is unusable. On one of my own programs |
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>> the 14 point text displays as if it were 8-9 point. I have a Matrox |
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>> Millennium G400 graphics card. I've tried all the settings i can |
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>>find and have tried different kernel modules settings without |
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>>success. The info I found on the web left me confused as it seems |
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>>that this card may have different names in the UK and US. I'm in the |
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>>UK. |
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>>TIA |
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>>Stewart |
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>So the situation is that basically "too many cooks spoil the soup". At |
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>least, that's the *first* problem, which we'd have to clear away before |
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>we could be sure that your video card is doing what it should (which I |
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>think it probably is; I have a G400 Max which I used till about a year |
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>or so ago under Linux, and it was really the most trouble-free card I've |
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>used). |
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>Hope this helps. |
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>Holly |
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Hi Stewart, |
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If you are running KDE and Gnome together, I sometimes run into the same |
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troubles as you. Generally, as Holly says, the problem is with Gnome/KDE |
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not playing well together (assuming you have them both installed). |
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However, the way I get around it is to: |
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a) start up "gnome-font-properties" and choose the fonts which look best. |
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b) edit your ~/.xprofile to contain: |
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#!/bin/sh |
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/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon & |
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c) make sure the ~/.xprofile script is executable |
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> chmod u+x ~/.xprofile |
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d) now log back into X, fire up kcontrol and adjust the KDE fonts in |
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"Appearance & Themes"->"Fonts" |
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Hopefully this will be of some help. It seems to work for me, so good luck! |
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Dave. |
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