big fonts in x... what happend?

saciel · 2007-03-06 21:46:21

I suddenly have quite big fonts in X applications and in my WMs menues (Fluxbox & KDE). It's not that they are really, really BIG but, they are definateley bigger than before which is quite annoying. The problem appeared today when I restarted my xserver (I had not done that for a week or two as I usually just suspend to disk instead of rebooting).

I had a bigger update recently (have a look at the log below) and I guess there is a connection to my problem. Has anyone encountered similiar problems recently? Any idea which package might be the origin or what else could have gone wrong?

I was thinking about 'pango' but I couldn't find an older package version and I decided to ask for other ideas before building one myself.

Or is there a simple way to (re)set X's default font size?

[03/05/07 02:19] synchronizing package lists
[03/05/07 02:19] starting full system upgrade
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded acroread (7.0.8-1 -> 7.0.9-1)
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded anthy (7900-1 -> 8700-1)
[03/06/07 00:31] warning: extracting /etc/clamav/clamd.conf as /etc/clamav/clamd.conf.pacnew
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded clamav (0.88.7-1 -> 0.90.1-1)
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded claws-mail (2.7.2-1 -> 2.8.0-1)
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded cracklib (2.8.9-1 -> 2.8.10-2)
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded libcups (1.2.7-1 -> 1.2.8-1)
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded cups (1.2.7-1 -> 1.2.8-3)
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded damageproto (1.0.3-1 -> 1.1.0-1)
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded device-mapper (1.02.13-1 -> 1.02.18-1)
[03/06/07 00:31] upgraded ed (0.3-1 -> 0.4-1)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded esd (0.2.36-2 -> 0.2.37-1)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded etherape (0.9.4-2 -> 0.9.7-1)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded file (4.19-1 -> 4.20-1)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded findutils (4.2.29-1 -> 4.2.30-1)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded fvwm (2.4.19-2 -> 2.4.20-1)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded libidl2 (0.8.7-1 -> 0.8.8-1)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded orbit2 (2.14.6-1 -> 2.14.7-1)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded gconf (2.16.0-2 -> 2.16.1-1)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded glibc (2.5-5 -> 2.5-6)
[03/06/07 00:32] warning: extracting /etc/rc.local as /etc/rc.local.pacnew
[03/06/07 00:32] warning: extracting /etc/rc.conf as /etc/rc.conf.pacnew
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded initscripts-gensplash (0.8-1 -> 0.8-6)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded kdebase (3.5.6-1 -> 3.5.6-2)
[03/06/07 00:32] upgraded kdevelop (3.3.6-1 -> 3.4.0-1)
[03/06/07 00:33] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.20.1-1 -> 2.6.20.1-2)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded klibc-udev (105-1 -> 106-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded libart-lgpl (2.3.17-2 -> 2.3.19-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded libgtop (2.14.7-1 -> 2.14.8-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded libx11 (1.1-2 -> 1.1.1-3)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded libxdamage (1.0.4-1 -> 1.1-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded randrproto (1.1.2-1 -> 1.2.1-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded libxrandr (1.1.2-1 -> 1.2.0-2)
[03/06/07 00:34] warning: extracting /etc/lilo.conf as /etc/lilo.conf.pacnew
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded lilo (22.7.3-3 -> 22.8-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded mutt (1.5.12-1 -> 1.5.14-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded nano (2.0.2-1 -> 2.0.3-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded openssl (0.9.8d-1 -> 0.9.8e-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded pango (1.14.10-1 -> 1.16.0-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded parted (1.8.1-1 -> 1.8.2-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded qt (3.3.7-1 -> 3.3.8-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded scim-anthy (1.2.1-1 -> 1.2.2-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded strace (4.5.14-2 -> 4.5.15-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded udev (105-4 -> 106-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded vim-a (2.14-1 -> 2.15-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded vim-taglist (42-1 -> 43-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded xf86-video-i810 (1.7.4-1 -> 1.7.4-2)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded xine-lib (1.1.3-1 -> 1.1.4-1)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded xmms (1.2.10-7 -> 1.2.10-8)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded xorg-server (1.1.1-6 -> 1.2.0-3)
[03/06/07 00:34] upgraded xorg-server-utils (1.0.3-1 -> 1.0.3-2)

Last edited by saciel (2007-03-06 21:54:32)

tomk · 2007-03-06 22:10:44

xorg's default DPI changed with the last upgrade. Make sure you have an accurate DisplaySize setting in Section "Monitor" in xorg.conf.

saciel · 2007-03-06 23:10:18

Okay, finally everything looks neat again...

There was actually no "DisplaySize" set in "Monitor". So I entered my values there which resultet in smaller fonts (but I guess they were still a bit bigger than before). Afterwards I had a look in the Arch wiki where I found this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XOr … i_settings
Entering 75 as dpi value finally resulted in nice small fonts.

Thank you.

Arch Linux

#1 2007-03-06 21:46:21

big fonts in x... what happend?

#2 2007-03-06 22:10:44

Re: big fonts in x... what happend?

#3 2007-03-06 23:10:18

Re: big fonts in x... what happend?

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