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epimer

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Registered: 2007-09-06

Posts: 24

[SOLVED] Font size issue since recent update

I swear I'm going insane.

Since the last round of upgrades (including a kernel update, an nvidia driver update and xorg 1.8) my fonts seem larger and programs which start up windowed (e.g. sakura) are taking up more screen space than before.

xrandr correctly returns my screen resolution (1440x900). Following the instructions for checking if xorg has correctly detected DPI, it seems everything is in order. All I had to do to get things more or less back to normal was to set my fonts to be a size lower (in obconf and lxappearance) - but at size 7 for everything now where before I was on 9.

Please tell me I'm going nuts and imagining things, or alternatively if you have any suggestions for what might have happened.

Thanks.

Last edited by epimer (2010-06-27 14:56:53)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: [SOLVED] Font size issue since recent update

Maybe the nvidia driver is detecting a different DPI than before. It sure sounds like a DPI change.

sctincman

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From: CO (USA)

Registered: 2009-04-08

Posts: 85

Re: [SOLVED] Font size issue since recent update

I agree with brebs, especially since setting my screen to the correct DPI recently involved changing to font size 7 to make things look right again

you could check Xorg.0.log.old maybe to see what was being set for dpi, or if you really wanted to, you could downgrade and see what xorg sets

epimer

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Registered: 2007-09-06

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Font size issue since recent update

Sorted it out by putting:

Option   "UseEdidDpi" "false"

into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf