Bug 88740
Summary: | HUGE fonts for some applications on Redhat 9 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <chhabra> |
Component: | fontconfig | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 9 | CC: | otaylor |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-04-13 17:54:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2003-04-12 20:13:37 UTC
Peculiar, since OpenOffice.org font drawing goes through an entirely different path than the all the other fonts on your system... it doesn't use fontconfig. I know nothing about maxima/imaxima (I assume it's some 3rd party application) but it's odd that it would have the same problem. You might want to check what the server thinks your display resolution is: xdpyinfo | grep resolution That should be between, say, 75 and 125 dpi. If the resolution is far from that, then it means that something went wrong with the server's attempt to determine the size of your monitor. You can work around this by setting DisplaySize in your XF86Config (see the XF86Config man page.) (Note that we don't use this resolution for computing the size of most fonts on the system, but it's possible that some programs like OOo might do that.) Thanks !! That fixed it, and even resolved another bug that I had submitted (not being able to open postscript documents because of a backing pixmap problem). There was a line in my /etc/X11/XF86Config : DisplaySize 11 9 That somehow translated into a resolution of something like 2000+/1500+. I removed the offending line and now the resolution is down to 75/75. It was interesting to see how some (not all) fonts were affected by the X server misconfiguration. Any idea of how the DisplaySize line got there? If the installer or redhat-config-xfree86 wrote it, that's something we need to look at. |