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cdown

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[SOLVED] Large fonts after upgrading on 2015-05-16

It seems some fonts are now huge after upgrading today. Screenshot from Chromium, but this also happened in urxvt and the GTK file selector in general:

Here are the packages that were upgraded:

% grep 2015-05-16 /var/log/pacman.log | grep 'upgraded\|installed'
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded gdk-pixbuf2 (2.31.3-1 -> 2.31.4-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded gtk-update-icon-cache (2.24.27-2 -> 3.16.3-2)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded libtirpc (0.2.5-1 -> 0.3.0-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded mesa (10.5.4-1 -> 10.5.5-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded mesa-libgl (10.5.4-1 -> 10.5.5-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded adwaita-icon-theme (3.16.0-2 -> 3.16.2.1-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded android-tools (5.1.0_r3-1 -> 5.1.1_r2-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded git (2.4.0-1 -> 2.4.1-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded gnutls (3.4.0-1 -> 3.4.1-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded gtk2 (2.24.27-2 -> 2.24.28-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded lcms2 (2.6-1 -> 2.7-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded sqlite (3.8.9-1 -> 3.8.10.1-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded gtk3 (3.16.2-1 -> 3.16.3-2)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded libass (0.12.1-1 -> 0.12.2-1)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded libpulse (6.0-1 -> 6.0-2)
[2015-05-16 02:31] [ALPM] upgraded linux (4.0.1-1 -> 4.0.2-1)
[2015-05-16 02:32] [ALPM] upgraded lynx (2.8.8-1 -> 2.8.8-2)
[2015-05-16 02:32] [ALPM] upgraded man-pages (3.83-1 -> 4.00-1)
[2015-05-16 02:32] [ALPM] upgraded offlineimap (6.5.6-1 -> 6.5.7-1)
[2015-05-16 02:32] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2015-05-16 02:32] [ALPM] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20150315-1 -> 20150514-1)
[2015-05-16 02:32] [ALPM] upgraded rsync (3.1.1-2 -> 3.1.1-3)
[2015-05-16 02:32] [ALPM] upgraded speech-dispatcher (0.8.1-1 -> 0.8.2-1)
[2015-05-16 02:32] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox-guest-modules (4.3.26-6 -> 4.3.28-1)
[2015-05-16 02:32] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox-guest-utils (4.3.26-3 -> 4.3.28-1)
[2015-05-16 02:34] [ALPM] upgraded google-chrome (42.0.2311.135-1 -> 42.0.2311.152-1)

I will try downgrading now to find the culprit, but if anyone else has any ideas, I'm all ears :-)

Last edited by cdown (2015-05-16 23:26:41)

cdown

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Re: [SOLVED] Large fonts after upgrading on 2015-05-16

Turned out not to be a package issue, fixed it by regenerating the font indices:

mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/{75,100}dpi

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Large fonts after upgrading on 2015-05-16

Please mark your thread as [SOLVED], thanks.

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mckeeh3

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Re: [SOLVED] Large fonts after upgrading on 2015-05-16

The above mkfontdir command did not work for me. Problem still not resolved. Tried removing the fonts.dir files in the /usr/shar/fonts/75dpi and 100dpi directories before running mkfontdir and did not work. Did reboot after each change.

mckeeh3

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Re: [SOLVED] Large fonts after upgrading on 2015-05-16

Things got better when in System Settings / Application Appearance / Fonts set Force fonts DPI to 96.

Odd that I updated VirtualBox VMs on 3 host systems and only one system had this issue. The 3 host systems are W7, W8 and Arch. The problem was on the W7 host system. The other variable is the 3 monitors. On problem W7 host screen size 1920/1200. On W7 and Arch using 4k monitors.