montior change results in insanely huge fonts

rakaur · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: St. Louis

Once upon a time, my fonts were all nice and pretty. Then my monitor died.

I got a new monitor, same size, same specs. My fonts are now huge and ugly. Why? I don't understand what could cause something like this to happen. I seriously shut down, plugged in the monitor, booted up and they were all screwed up.

I've tried recompiling X (XFree86, xorg doesn't play nicely with ati-drivers evidently) to no avail. I've also tried recompiling every installed package with "font" anywhere in the name to no avail. I've also tried recompiling things like GTK etc., to no avail.

Every single font (excepting terminal text) is huge. gkrellm's display fonts are all huge. gaim's fonts are all huge. Window decoration fonts (titles, et al) are all huge. Menu fonts are all huge. I use fluxbox; however, I've tried creating a new user from scratch and starting twm with the same issues.

I'm mainly using fluxbox with gnome-like applications (that is, insofar as GUI programs are concerned, I use GTK programs mostly). X is XFree86. All programs are whatever the latest unmasked versions in portage are.

If anyone has any idea of what's going on, please let me know. I fear having to spend a day reinstalling.

Flipperrr · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:24 pm Post subject:

Propably DPI related... Check this thread (or search the forums on DPI):
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=241316

rakaur · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: St. Louis

I have no such configuration directive in my XF86Config (generated by fglrxconfig... several times).

I've even tried xf86config and friends to no avail.

Searching the forums for "DPI" or "fonts" or "big fonts" etc. give me such massive results with unrelated Subject lines that it'd be pretty hard to find any useful information. I tried searching for how to fix this for a few months before I registered and posted here.

Flipperrr · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject:

Well, it's not there by default. You should add it to your monitor section like this:

rakaur · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: St. Louis

I'm off to try that now, but first...

It seems if I turn off antialiasing in my window manager the window manager's fonts go back to "normal." Other program fonts (like the playlist in bmp) are still insanely huge though.

rakaur · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: St. Louis

Fiddling with DisplaySize definitely changes them (though I have to go up to something like 500 400 for anything reasonable) but they still look like absolute crap.

Flipperrr · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject:

I had some problems with GTK apps and fonts (I use KDE). I resolved it by changing the font paths in my x config file. I added ":unscaled" to these fonts: