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DeepThot Registered Member Posts 2 Karma 0	Huge Fonts in Apps but nowhere else... Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:00 am Installed Fedora 10 in a VM, screen res is 1680X1050, system settings has all fonts set to 8 point but they appear HUGE, looking more like 16 point in all launched applications. Setting the fonts to 5 point makes the applications look OK but system dialogues are unreadable, exactly how a 5 point font at this resolution should look. Anyone else come across this 'problem'?
bcooksley Administrator Posts 19765 Karma 87 OS	RE: Huge Fonts in Apps but nowhere else... Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:33 am I have never come across this issue before. Although what is a system dialog? ( Notification? ) Does this affect only KDE applications? Also which version of KDE have you installed? KDE Sysadmin [img]content/bcooksley_sig.png[/img]
DeepThot Registered Member Posts 2 Karma 0	RE: Huge Fonts in Apps but nowhere else... Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:07 pm bcooksley wrote:I have never come across this issue before. Although what is a system dialog? ( Notification? ) Does this affect only KDE applications? Also which version of KDE have you installed? KDE 4.1 System Dialogue.. ok, a bit of a misnomer on my part.. my bad. All text in the K Menu is as one would expect, Login dialogue looks right, Everything in the panel looks correct, Text in the Cashew looks right, as does everything in the 'Add Widgets' dialogue, and the text in KPackageKit looks OK too. The version of KDE I am running is 4.1.2 shipped with the Fedore 10 Distro before applying any updates. So far as I can see it affects KDE apps, I haven't been running any Gnome applications. A partial list of apps that look wrong (huge fonts) (Fedore 10) KTorrent Konqueror Dolphin Okular Desktop Switcher DNGImageConverter and many many more. Last edited by DeepThot on Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.
bcooksley Administrator Posts 19765 Karma 87 OS	RE: Huge Fonts in Apps but nowhere else... Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:40 am Does this issue occur under other users or only your own? This sounds like a damaged configuration file. KDE Sysadmin [img]content/bcooksley_sig.png[/img]
bengbers Registered Member Posts 21 Karma 0 OS	RE: Huge Fonts in Apps but nowhere else... Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:17 pm DeepThot wrote:Installed Fedora 10 in a VM, screen res is 1680X1050, system settings has all fonts set to 8 point but they appear HUGE, looking more like 16 point in all launched applications. Setting the fonts to 5 point makes the applications look OK but system dialogues are unreadable, exactly how a 5 point font at this resolution should look. Anyone else come across this 'problem'? I have installed KDE on a Toshiba Laptop and see the same. The basic screen looks perfect but as soon as I start up an application, I only see huge fonts.
bcooksley Administrator Posts 19765 Karma 87 OS	RE: Huge Fonts in Apps but nowhere else... Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:05 pm If a bug does not already exist, please file one at bugs.kde.org KDE Sysadmin [img]content/bcooksley_sig.png[/img]
Alec Registered Member Posts 565 Karma 1 OS	RE: Huge Fonts in Apps but nowhere else... Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:58 am It sounds to me like X11's font DPI might be too high, but I never had that problem myself, so I'm not sure how to handle that. Get problems solved faster - get reply notifications through Jabber!