On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed potato on my Sharp PC 9090 notebook. I used to run > slink with no problem, but in potato the fonts in Xwindows are > displayed far too big. I first noticed it when I started Communicator > and the text beneath the icons (back, reload etc) was much bigger than > it used to be. The same effect in gfcc and Acrobat Reader. They are > far too big compared to the fonts in the window titles, so it's not a > case of "just choose a smaller font if you don't like it". > > Has anybody got a clue? I'm running Xfree 3.3.6 with an S3-Xserver.
Check the X font path. You may have the 100DPI fonts in the search path before the 75DPI ones. Alternately, you may not actually have the 75DPI ones installed... Daniel -- Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what the people do want. -- Clive Barnes