On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 17:58:19 -0200, Adriano Bonat wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008 5:47 PM, Preston Boyington wrote:
> > I have installed Debian (and Ubuntu) on this laptop several times and I
> > am stumped. If I use Debian 4.0r2 (currently "stable") I don't have any
> > problems with the font size in gdm, but if I directly install "testing"
> > from a netinst cd or do a dist-upgrade the fonts are gigantic.
> >
> > Imagine the circles that obscure your password while logging into your
> > session in gdm being about the size of ping pong balls. then when Gnome
> > initially starts the upper and lower bars are about a third of the
> > screen apiece. After a moment they will go to a normal size, but any
> > font in gdm and its' associated menu entry will be super-sized. This
> > makes it very difficult to change sessions.
[...]
> I have the same notebook, when I was using Debian with KDM (etch)
> everything was ok, now I was testing Kubuntu and I have always in kdm
> that big fonts problem, after login, everything is ok.
>
> They say that the solution is specify a DisplaySize in your xorg.conf,
> but for me doesnt work.
Putting the DisplaySize into xorg.conf used to be a good way to ensure
consistent DPI settings, because this was independent of how you started
X, but as far as I can tell this approach does not work reliably anymore
at the moment for both Lenny and Sid.
Two important commands to figure out what is going on:
xdpyinfo | egrep 'dim|resol'
ps -ef | grep '/usr/bin/X[ ]'
The first one displays the DPI current settings, the second one shows
which parameters were passed to X when it was started - watch out for an
incorrect "-dpi ..." specification here. I have the impression that it
is currently necessary to enforce a correct DPI setting; Xorg seems to
adjust its ideas about the display dimensions based on that.
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If you use startx you can try "startx -- -dpi XXX", replacing "XXX" with
your calculated correct DPI value. Also, watch out for this line in
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc:
exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
You can adjust the dpi value here to save you typing when you start X.
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If you log in with KDM then you have to edit this line in
/var/run/kdm/kdmrc:
ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp
You can add the -dpi option here:
ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -dpi XXX
and restart kdm. ("invokde-rc.d kdm restart") In any case, make sure to
keep the "-nolisten tcp" part unless you really know what you are doing.
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If you use XDM then you can enforce the DPI setting by editing this line
in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:
:0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
and restarting XDM. ("invokde-rc.d xdm restart")
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I don't know GDM too well, unfortunately. I think that this section in
/usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf might be a good place to start:
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X -audit 0
I would hope that adding " -dpi XXX" to the "command" line will work.
The file has a few other lines that start with "command=/usr/bin/X", so
it might be necessary to try those as well.
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Finally, some applications can still show wrong font sizes even if
Xorg's DPI setting is correct, e.g. iceweasel and openoffice.org. In
that case it might help to run
echo "Xft.dpi: 96" | xrdb -merge
(adjust "96" as necessary)
and to restart the problematic program. If this works it can be made
permanent by adding the line
Xft.dpi: 96
to ~/.Xresources.
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