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#1 2008-02-16 19:55:06

uterrorista
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Login big fonts

I messed up the fonts.
I removed them and installed it again.

But know my fonts at login (only) are enormous.  when I'm typing my user-name and password I can't see what I'm writing because the font is 10 times bigger than the input text box...

what can i do to fix these?

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#2 2008-02-16 23:22:39

tami
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Re: Login big fonts

hmmm - I have never encountered the problem - but from your description - have you run:

fc-cache -vf

after installing the fonts once again?

If this will not help - perhaps you can find the help here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts

Greetings,

tami smile


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#3 2008-02-16 23:55:03

bender02
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Re: Login big fonts

Well, fc-cache is run automatically after installing fonts via pacman; they are packaged together with an install script, which does precisely this.

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#4 2008-02-17 00:18:49

tami
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Re: Login big fonts

bender02 wrote:

Well, fc-cache is run automatically after installing fonts via pacman; they are packaged together with an install script, which does precisely this.

...well - I do not claim I am a "guru" - and definitely not in the case of Archlinux - but something obviously went wrong here, didn't it? I like Arch and that's why I try to help others as well as I can.

I encountered similar problems ("funky fonts") some time ago on Debian based distro and they were connected with missing refreshing of the cache.

Anyway - OP does not supply info if the fonts were installed through pacman.

My second guess would be to check font settings of the login manager. But, of course, could be nice if somebody more "enlightened" than  me or OP would suggest the solution to the problem.

Kind greetings,
tami

Last edited by tami (2008-02-17 00:19:30)


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#5 2008-02-17 16:58:33

wyvern
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Re: Login big fonts

Have you tried specifying the dpi? There are several ways to do this:

1. Which login manager do you use? As Tami suggested there will be an option to add font DPI depending on which you use. For example, using Slim I edit the '/etc/slim.conf' file to change this line:

xserver_arguments   -nolisten tcp 
to this 
xserver_arguments   -nolisten tcp -dpi 96

GDM and KDM have similar methods of specifying DPI.

2. Or, for a desktop-agnostic method, try editing (as root or via sudo)

'/usr/bin/startx', changing the line:

defaultserverargs=""

to add either "-dpi 96" or "-dpi 75" (depending on your preference).

Then log out to see any changes.

Finally, an obvious one, but have you ensured you reinstalled the 'xorg-fonts-100dpi' and 'xorg-fonts-75dpi' packages too?

Let me know if this helps at all smile

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#6 2008-02-17 19:40:21

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Re: Login big fonts

tami wrote:
bender02 wrote:

Well, fc-cache is run automatically after installing fonts via pacman; they are packaged together with an install script, which does precisely this.

...well - I do not claim I am a "guru" - and definitely not in the case of Archlinux - but something obviously went wrong here, didn't it? I like Arch and that's why I try to help others as well as I can.

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend... I just wanted to point out that it should not be necessary to run fc-cache manually after installing fonts. But of course, it's a good thing to try it, if something goes wrong.

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#7 2008-02-17 22:45:58

uterrorista
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Re: Login big fonts

all problems started with: (I'm sure!..)

pacman -S artwiz-fonts ttf-ms-fonts

this:

defaultserverargs="-dpi 75"

didn't work...

I don't now how to resolve this one..

Thank you all wink

Last edited by uterrorista (2008-02-17 22:46:40)

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#8 2008-02-19 00:46:14

uterrorista
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Re: Login big fonts

I'm still waiting a solution/tip/etc..............................

I'll post some feedback if the problem is solved. Till than, waiting..

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