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bobzomer

Member

Registered: 2004-05-11

Posts: 14

XOrg update font problem

Hello!
This morning, I updated my Archlinux, as everyday, but since then I've got fonts problems in XOrg: some of the fonts are huge!
I looked at /var/log/pacman.log and noticed that only xorg-server and xorg-server-utils were updated. I looked at the output of X, and it says:

Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/75pi:unscaled, removing from list!

Yes, that's not a typo, XOrg searches for fonts in the directory 75pi instead of 75dpi. I looked into all my configuration file, but didn't find an error, so I guess it's hardcoded in some XOrg file. How can I solve this problem?

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: XOrg update font problem

Hmm, typo in the PKGBUILD. You can override the fontpath in xorg.conf though.

With 1.2.0-2, we switched the default DPI value from 75dpi to 96dpi, as 96dpi displays are far more common (1280x1024 on a 17" TFT is quite common). I'll update xorg-server to contain the correct fontpath by default.

mcover

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 134

Re: XOrg update font problem

After upgrading Xorg I also got bigger fonts. Its not very pretty and I hope it is somehow fixable, because I don't want to change all my font sizes manually.

Well I also should add that I have two machines running Arch, one laptop one PC. On the PC everything looks as always but on the laptop the fonts are suddenly real big. Maybe the difference in screen resolution might be the cause or only certain screen resolutions are affected.

On the laptop I did not find any entries in the Xorg-log file saying something about 75pi, but it is telling me that a whole load of font-paths were not added. But that is the case on both of my machines. I suppose that's normal - or is it?!

Please help.

Last edited by mcover (2007-02-27 11:55:45)

bobzomer

Member

Registered: 2004-05-11

Posts: 14

Re: XOrg update font problem

Waiting the package to be fixed, I found a quick solution. I created a symlink from /usr/share/fonts/75dpi to /usr/share/fonts/75pi.

# ln -s /usr/share/fonts/75dpi /usr/share/fonts/75pi

It's a dirty hack, but it works...

_alexmyself

Member

From: france

Registered: 2005-09-18

Posts: 90

Re: XOrg update font problem

same here but 'ln -s' doesn't work, kde or x very long to start, it's strange because images are good, just font are bad, maybe there's something else to do after ln -s ?

_alexmyself

Member

From: france

Registered: 2005-09-18

Posts: 90

Re: XOrg update font problem

no 'ln -s..' need for me (no error in log about font path)
add this to /usr/bin/startx :

defaultserverargs="-dpi 75 -nolisten tcp"

set dpi to 75 and make x running only for my pc, no x network.