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#1 2012-03-01 22:38:45

minivanman
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Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

I'll start with a picture.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/ … xfubar.jpg

Notice, while everything else is the correct size, the font for the dropdowns and menus in VirtualBox are incredibly small.  They are unreadable. 

The issue initially arose when I built up an Arch build on a 19" LCD display then moved the computer over to a 50" Plasma.  I was using Openbox for a window manager and it rendered the entire thing unusable.  Every program I opened up looked like that.  I then reloaded Arch, reinstalled Openbox all while using the Plasma TV and got the same thing.  So, I tried XFCE.  XFCE cleaned up a lot, and made it generally usable, but still a lot of programs showed up that way.  I then reloaded Arch again, and this time went straight to XFCE.  Everything looked fine then EXCEPT for VirtualBox. 

I was able to navigate through and load XP in VirtualBox, but it's incredibly annoying if anything goes wrong and needs to be configured.  Of course, something has indeed gone wrong.  For some reason my guest systems are not staying after a reboot of the system.  They'll stay if I load them up while in root.  But if I'm logged in as my regular user the guests disappear. 

More concerned about the font thing right now.

Moderator edit:  Changed huge in-line picture to a link

Last edited by minivanman (2012-03-02 15:08:17)

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#2 2012-03-02 01:39:54

hadrons123
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Re: Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

You can adjust the font size, from the xfce settings.

http://wiki.xfce.org/tips


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#3 2012-03-02 02:20:39

minivanman
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Re: Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

hadrons123 wrote:

You can adjust the font size, from the xfce settings.

http://wiki.xfce.org/tips

Thanks, but it only occurs with VirtualBox.  Plus, with Openbox it was in everything.  So, it's not a font issue with XFCE.

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#4 2012-03-02 02:26:22

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Re: Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

Virtualbox uses qt toolkit, hence has qt theme that you need to configure properly.

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#5 2012-03-02 02:30:47

hadrons123
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Re: Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

@meyithi does changing the font size in this will help ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … _procedure

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Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-03-02 02:33:13)


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#6 2012-03-02 03:58:01

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Re: Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

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@minivanman:  First off, welcome to Arch Linux.  Second, That picture is just a smidgen over our Guidelines for pasting pictures and code

Furthermore, i just could not abide that logo being so prominent on these Linux forums big_smile


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#7 2012-03-02 04:27:56

minivanman
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Re: Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

ewaller wrote:

Moderator comment:
@minivanman:  First off, welcome to Arch Linux.  Second, That picture is just a smidgen over our Guidelines for pasting pictures and code

Furthermore, i just could not abide that logo being so prominent on these Linux forums big_smile

Sorry about that.  Newbie here but not forum newbie.  Consider my hand slapped.  You have to give me props that it was a virtual machine.  The wife will abide this media PC being Linux as long as Netflix is accessible. 

Anyway, I found the problem.  I took the original advice and started digging through the "Appearance" GUI and fonts, and found a clicky, button, check thingy for a custom DPI setting for my fonts.  I checked that and set it to 96 DPI and it fixed the problem.

Was odd that it only affected VirtualBox.  Silly Arch people.  Why use the command line when there's a fancy GUI available?  I'll run for cover now.

That was the last hiccup in this process.  My new Arch based MythTV build, replete with Netflix, and tied into my MythBox Backend server.  A beautiful thing.

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#8 2012-03-02 07:06:04

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Re: Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

Was odd that it only affected VirtualBox.  Silly Arch people.  Why use the command line when there's a fancy GUI available?  I'll run for cover now.

Run. Far away.

It also affected SMPlayer, Dolphin, Sigil and any other KDE-based applications you may have had installed (which use Qt).


Small suggestion: next time use a screenshot program like Gimp (File - Create - Screenshot) or scrot from the CLI. Much easier (and sharper) than taking an actual photo of the screen.

And please remember to mark this thread as solved (by editing the first post) so that other people (including yourself sometimes) may find it useful.


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#9 2012-03-02 15:15:46

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Re: Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

DSpider wrote:

Small suggestion: next time use a screenshot program like Gimp (File - Create - Screenshot) or scrot from the CLI. Much easier (and sharper) than taking an actual photo of the screen.

Normally I would, but this build was very minimal.  I have a desktop that's nice and feature rich for everyday computing.  It's what drew me to Arch, everything I wanted, nothing I didn't for this build.  No KDE apps.  I kept this as light as I possibly could.  Purely a mediacenter for TV, Hulu, Netflix, and other streaming.

This is very off topic, but I couldn't be happier.  I haven't felt this "in control" of my O/S since old MSDOS back in the 80's.

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#10 2012-03-02 16:39:21

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Re: Menu Fonts Very Small on Some Applications (Solved)

Can't get any more minimal than running scrot from a terminal. The whole package takes up a whooping 0.05 MB.


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