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celestialorb

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From: Seattle, Washington

Registered: 2009-07-30

Posts: 30

GNOME Font Size too small upon startup

Ok, so I recently hooked up an old computer to a big screen TV and everything is working perfectly except that upon GNOME startup the font size (for menus and filenames, et cetera) is too small.  However, when I open Apperance from System > Preferences > Appearance the font size reverts back to normal.

I tried googling this but I couldn't find anything on the matter.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Greenland

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Registered: 2008-02-28

Posts: 12

Re: GNOME Font Size too small upon startup

Have you found a solution yet? If not then this can be considered as a bump, as I have the same problem and would really like to fix it.

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: GNOME Font Size too small upon startup

you may have to set the DPI correctly in xorg.conf or xrandr during X startup.

Jamie

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From: United States

Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 107

Re: GNOME Font Size too small upon startup

you may have to set the DPI correctly in xorg.conf or xrandr during X startup.

Setting DPI worked for me.  My default fonts looked a bit smaller than I wanted so I "upped" the DPI a tad and it looks perfect now .

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Thanks,
Jamie

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