From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Using KDE as my desktop fonts are sized incorrectly this occurs in GTK apps as well. Once I run gnome-font-properties the font sizes are corrected. But, this also replaces the kde desktop with the gnome desktop. I have edited /etc/X11/Xresources to match the dpi (88) for my X setup but that did not help. It is also set at 88 in gnome-font-properties Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.use KDE as a desktop 2. observe fonts in apps as too small 3. run gnome-font-porperties 4. observed font size changes Actual Results: KDE desktop is replaced with gnome desktop upon running gnome-font-porperties Expected Results: When running KDE Xft fonts should size correctly Additional info:
The change in font size appears to happen only to GTK (i.e. gedit, eclipse) apps and not KDE apps (i.e. kate). Do the GTK apps assume a DPI until gnome-font-properties is run?
I don't understand what you mean by "KDE desktop is replaced with gnome desktop upon running gnome-font-properties". gnome-font-properties will sart gnome-settings-daemon, which will propagate various GNOME settings to GNOME apps running currently. But it shouldn't start nautilus, or gnome-panel, or metacity. (The standard KDE konqueror, kicker, kwin should run unaffected.) Until you run gnome-font-properties, GNOME apps will get the defualt font size. They really should get the size configured within KDE (bug 76887) but that is a quite large project. I'm going to resolve this as a duplicate of bug 76887. If either: a) Running gnome-font-properties does anything other than change settings for gnome apps. b) The size you get for GNOME apps on starting KDE is something other than the default font size (the default size should be the same for GNOME and KDE until you configure one or the other.) Could you reopen this bug and add more details? Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76887 ***
When I run gnome-font-properties all of my icons disappear and the desktop (background) area is replaced by whatever I had configured under gnome. In fact, after running gnome-font-properties I can know change the background using gnome-control-center. Thus it seems that gnome has "stolen" control of the the background. I don't know if that is so much a bug as just weird behavior. I guest it would all be moot if I could find out how to change the "default font size" for gnome apps without having to run gnome-font-properties.
What I think is happening: - Konqueror sets ESETROOT_PMAP_ID to point to it's root window pixmap. The way ESETROOT_PMAP_ID is supposed to work is that it points to a pixmap on a separate display connection that is "persistant", and the next person setting the background calls XKillClient() for that connection. But for Konqueror, the pixmap is owned by the main Konqueror process. - gnome-font-properties starts gnome-background-properties, which tries to set the background. It does an XKillClient() on the root background pixmap which kills Konqueror. I'm not sure if it's we should - Fix konqueror - Fix gnome-settings-daemon to say "hmm, I seem to be running under KDE, let's not set the background". (I think we have kde-is-running code somewhere else) - Both
I vote both. I don't think the gnome-settings-daemon should run at all if KDE is going.
This problem still exists in Fedora Core 4. However there are now no settings changed when running gnome-settings-daemon or gnome-font-properties expect the ugly fonts for gnome apps are cleaned up. I did an upgrade from RedHat and/or Fedora, did not test a fresh Fedora install.
This bug is reported against old release of Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core that is no longer supported. Chances are that it has been already fixed in newer Fedora Core release. If you still experience the problem with current release of Fedora Core, please update the Version field (you may need to switch Product to Fedora Core first) in the bug report and put it back to NEW state.
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