Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88740
HUGE fonts for some applications on Redhat 9
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
Description of problem: Some fonts in some applications look HUGE. Just installed RH 9 on my laptop. For certain applications, the fon ts are HUGE. For instance, I just tried to install OpenOffice 1.0.3 (after the fonts for the default installation looked HUGE), and the dialog box text is as large as my screen. In another application (maxima using imaxima), the same thing happens. Somehow it seems that the default font size is set to something like 90 pts !! How do I fix this ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This seems to be a problem across programs. How reproducible: On affected applications, every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Just run the affected application. 2. 3. Actual results: HUGE fonts. Expected results: Something readable. Additional info: See the following bug (it might be related) : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88691
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.