XFCE 4.2 RC1 - Font size issue [solved]

catkfr · Guru Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 300

Hey,

I just tried out the latest XFCE and I have to say I am truly impressed by the progress made by XFCE. If I can configure it properly, I may even stop using gnome and switch...

But I have had a problem with font sizes. I am using the same fonts (Bitstream vera sans regular

as I am in gnome but they appear bigger on my screen... I thought, I was just mistaken but I had confirmation when I tried to launch gdeskcal: my custom skin is now totally off since the fonts are slightly bigger. I'm guessing this has to do with the screen dpi setting (if this is used to go from font size to rendering). Does anyone have the same issue and knows how to solve this issue?

Thanks,

Catkfr

catkfr · Guru Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 300

Well, after a little digging, I found what the problem was. Gnome was set to use 96 dpi for the applications but did not set the dpi for xorg which was computed by xorg as 111dpi. This was used by gdeskcal and the font were sized after this.

Apparently, xfce did more or less the opposite and used a higher dpi for the applications (the one of xorg) but a lower one was used by gdeskcal (I really don't know why)...

Anyways, after looking a little bit, I found out how to set everything straight and set the dpi to 96 dpi everywhere.

Here's how to do it: run