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doomsday.wombats

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Registered: 2017-01-17

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[SOLVED] Deepin Messed Up GTK Application Fonts

I figured I'd take a look at the Deepin desktop environment...and I didn't like it. After about 10 minutes, I switched back to standard Gnome, and uninstalled all components of Deepin.

Now a large subset of my applications (Virtualbox, Firefox, OpenSCAD, etc.) all have ginormous fonts.

I've tried rebooting (because I figured everyone would recommend it), setting fonts/themes via gnome-tweaks, gtk-theme-switch2, qtconfig-qt4, gtk-chtheme, etc. and none make a difference.

Anyone have an idea on how to reset the font/theme on these?

Solution:
Not the best solution, but I reinstalled Deepin, and noticed scaling was set to 200% in settings. I set it to 100%, went back to Gnome, and that seems to have fixed this.

Strangely enough, if I set the scale back to 200% in Deepin, and then use gnome-control-center/gnome-tweaks to set the scale to 100% (both report it is already at 100%/1.00), it seemingly doesn't change it. My only conclusion is that Deepin sets some scaling setting somewhere that gnome-control-center and gnome-tweaks do not.

Last edited by doomsday.wombats (2018-09-24 14:37:51)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Deepin Messed Up GTK Application Fonts

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1808891

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doomsday.wombats

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Re: [SOLVED] Deepin Messed Up GTK Application Fonts

I can run the following and get zero results:

find / -iname *deepin* 2>/dev/null

Edit: I probably should elaborate a little bit more - none of the files mentioned in that post exist. I checked the font config files (both system level and user level) for any recent modifications, there were none.

Last edited by doomsday.wombats (2018-09-24 13:42:58)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Deepin Messed Up GTK Application Fonts

Are only the fonts oversized or actually everything?

env
xdpyinfo | grep resolution

How big is "ginormous" actually?

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doomsday.wombats

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Re: [SOLVED] Deepin Messed Up GTK Application Fonts

The text looked at least double if not triple the size it used to be. The icons and window bars were all normal, it was just the text in the application window.

Please see first post for my solution.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Deepin Messed Up GTK Application Fonts

check the outputs i asked for in post #4

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