I'm running Lenny on my desktop, and I upgrade regularly. I run X at
1152x864 on a 19" monitor, and have been doing so for years. Sometime
recently, perhaps within the last 10 days or so, the sizes of several
of my fonts have changed, and I am at a loss to figure out why. The
world has changed too much, and I no longer know where to look. My
screen resolution has not changed, and my X server knows the correct
dimensions of my monitor and has an accurate DPI calculation. It is
not something in my own personal settings, because the font used to
echo my username and draw the bullets when I type my password in gdm
have also shrunk.

If I just knew how gdm picks what fonts it uses, I'd be well on my way
to figuring this out. In the olden days, I used to edit my xfs
configuration to select 100 dpi fonts over 75 dpi fonts, but my font
path (as shown with xset -q) does actually already have the 100 dpi
fonts first.

Any application for which I specify fonts explicitly with my X
resources remains the same (xterm, emacs, etc.). The default font
size has shrunk for gdm, sawfish, and iceweasel. I don't run gnome
(except gdm) -- my desktop consists of xterms and emacs, which are
fine.

Any hints on where to look would be most appreciated. I've already
dug through packages that appear to have been upgraded in the last
several days, though I can't pinpoint the exact time when I noticed
the changes in the font size. I believe I did an aptitude
full-upgrade recently after not having done one for a couple of weeks.

Thanks for any advice.

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:54:32 -0400
Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> wrote:

[...]

> Any application for which I specify fonts explicitly with my X
> resources remains the same (xterm, emacs, etc.). The default font
> size has shrunk for gdm, sawfish, and iceweasel. I don't run gnome
> (except gdm) -- my desktop consists of xterms and emacs, which are
> fine.
>
> Any hints on where to look would be most appreciated. I've already
> dug through packages that appear to have been upgraded in the last
> several days, though I can't pinpoint the exact time when I noticed
> the changes in the font size. I believe I did an aptitude
> full-upgrade recently after not having done one for a couple of weeks.
>
> Thanks for any advice.

gdm, sawfish, and iceweasel use fontconfig for their font
configuration, whereas xterm and emacs use fonts supplied by the X
server. So I would start by looking at recent changes to
libfontconfig1 and friends.

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:54:32 -0400
Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> wrote:

[...]

> Any application for which I specify fonts explicitly with my X
> resources remains the same (xterm, emacs, etc.). The default font
> size has shrunk for gdm, sawfish, and iceweasel. I don't run gnome
> (except gdm) -- my desktop consists of xterms and emacs, which are
> fine.
>
> Any hints on where to look would be most appreciated. I've already
> dug through packages that appear to have been upgraded in the last
> several days, though I can't pinpoint the exact time when I noticed
> the changes in the font size. I believe I did an aptitude
> full-upgrade recently after not having done one for a couple of weeks.
>
> Thanks for any advice.

gdm, sawfish, and iceweasel use fontconfig for their font
configuration, whereas xterm and emacs use fonts supplied by the X
server. So I would start by looking at recent changes to
libfontconfig1 and friends.

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* Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> 2007-08-16
> I'm running Lenny on my desktop, and I upgrade regularly. I run X at
> 1152x864 on a 19" monitor, and have been doing so for years. Sometime
> recently, perhaps within the last 10 days or so, the sizes of several
> of my fonts have changed, and I am at a loss to figure out why. The
> world has changed too much, and I no longer know where to look. My
> screen resolution has not changed, and my X server knows the correct
> dimensions of my monitor and has an accurate DPI calculation. It is
> not something in my own personal settings, because the font used to
> echo my username and draw the bullets when I type my password in gdm
> have also shrunk.

I am moving from Testing to Stable, and my Testing has the same problem. The
cause, I inferred from "xdpyinfo", was that Stable is at 96 DPI while
Testing has unexpectedly changed to 75 DPI. Stable does not have such
unexpected behavior, that is why I am moving to it.

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* Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> 2007-08-16
> I'm running Lenny on my desktop, and I upgrade regularly. I run X at
> 1152x864 on a 19" monitor, and have been doing so for years. Sometime
> recently, perhaps within the last 10 days or so, the sizes of several
> of my fonts have changed, and I am at a loss to figure out why. The
> world has changed too much, and I no longer know where to look. My
> screen resolution has not changed, and my X server knows the correct
> dimensions of my monitor and has an accurate DPI calculation. It is
> not something in my own personal settings, because the font used to
> echo my username and draw the bullets when I type my password in gdm
> have also shrunk.

I am moving from Testing to Stable, and my Testing has the same problem. The
cause, I inferred from "xdpyinfo", was that Stable is at 96 DPI while
Testing has unexpectedly changed to 75 DPI. Stable does not have such
unexpected behavior, that is why I am moving to it.

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Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>



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Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

> If I just knew how gdm picks what fonts it uses, I'd be well on my way
> to figuring this out. In the olden days, I used to edit my xfs
> configuration to select 100 dpi fonts over 75 dpi fonts, but my font
> path (as shown with xset -q) does actually already have the 100 dpi
> fonts first.
>

Thanks for discussing this. I was wondering why my xemacs fonts were so
messed up after the recent update.

I was able to get 100dpi fonts back by running gdmsetup. Going to the
security tab, and clicking on Configure X Server (at the bottom).
There you will see "command". Just add the -dpi 100 and restart gdm and
you should have 100 dpi fonts.

Now I have to go undo all of my xemacs changes.


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Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

> If I just knew how gdm picks what fonts it uses, I'd be well on my way
> to figuring this out. In the olden days, I used to edit my xfs
> configuration to select 100 dpi fonts over 75 dpi fonts, but my font
> path (as shown with xset -q) does actually already have the 100 dpi
> fonts first.
>

Thanks for discussing this. I was wondering why my xemacs fonts were so
messed up after the recent update.

I was able to get 100dpi fonts back by running gdmsetup. Going to the
security tab, and clicking on Configure X Server (at the bottom).
There you will see "command". Just add the -dpi 100 and restart gdm and
you should have 100 dpi fonts.

Now I have to go undo all of my xemacs changes.


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