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jbinto
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 Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject: Brand new KDE installation, fonts way too small |
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I have installed Gentoo for the first time on my primary desktop PC and emerge'd kde-meta. First time KDE user, always used lightweight window managers before as I have never installed Linux on a desktop. Anyway, all the fonts are way too small - unreadable. I google'd for information and they all told me to use the Control Centre to change font sizes. That is only so helpful. It is a DPI problem: 8pt fonts are the size of 5pt fonts, 12pt the size of 7pt, etc. This is NOT just a problem with gtk+ applications (although Firefox is also unreadably small), it affects every KDE app including kdm/xdm.
Here's some info:
Using packages:
kde-base/kde-meta-3.4.3
xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 (with -font-server ...could this be my problem?)
x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.22.5
lspci:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 645xx (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] (Secondary)
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This is in my Xorg.0.log file:
| Code: | Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/util, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/encodings, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local, removing from list!
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(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/terminus" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/local/share/fonts".
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/local/share/fonts").
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts".
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts").
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/default".
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/default").
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/jisx0213" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/shinonome" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk-fonts" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/kacst-fonts" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/sgi-fonts" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/unfonts" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-100dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-75dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-misc" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-100dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-75dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-misc" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-cp1251-100dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-cp1251-75dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
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(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-koi8r-75dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-koi8r-misc" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-100dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-75dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-misc" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-100dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-75dpi" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-misc" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/share/fonts/util,/usr/share/fonts/encodings,/usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/local,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript"
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
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jstead1
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Could be your dpi is not set correctly in your xorg.conf.
Some apps use this, some do not.
Firefox can be set to do either.
Nvidia cards/drivers can use the dpi setting info from the monitor (which can be wrong, which is how I found out about this). I don't know that ATI is doing the same thing.
Google xorg.conf and dpi, and you should get plenty of info.
All the font path errors are just that, font paths in your xorg.conf file that don't actually exist. I doubt they are causing the problem. You can delete references to directories and fonts that don't exist in your xorg.conf You may consider re-ordering the font paths in your xorg.conf so that the fonts you would want to show up if two are named the same would be first in the path (in general, make the TTF show up earlier if these are the fonts you generally want to use).
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jbinto
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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I have set:
DisplaySize 400 225
in my xorg.conf. Peculiar, because I am using a huge display (32" LCD tv: about 800mm by 550mm) and setting it to that makes it even smaller than without DisplaySize in xorg.conf. Perhaps the DPI information it is pulling from my TV is incorrect. This fixes my problems for the most part, but I still have problems with Firefox. I have told it to respect system settings but it is still far too small.
Is there some guide for running GTK applications (ahem, firefox) underneath KDE with respect to fonts/DPI?
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