fonts too small under X

jobano · 10-10-2004, 08:16 PM

I have a debian and all my wx applications are displaying really tiny fonts.
By wx, I mean wxvlc, xmms and audacity for examples.

I already know that it's not depending on my window manager or session manager cause I have try those applications on a single X...
And all the others graphical interfaces are 'on size'.

Any idea ?

here a part of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file

Code:

Section "Files"
        FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font server
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection

thanks in advance

arthurb · 01-23-2005, 11:46 AM

I'm having the same trouble with my debian sarge distro and the latest ubuntu release.

Screen fonts display correctly in all apps but the following: xmms, xmule, audacity, alsaplayer, gmplayer.

I have played around with the X -dpi 100 setting, the paths to my fonts are user readable, since Scribus and OO.org can load them. It does not make any difference if I log in as root or user.

What can I do to fix this?

An example of the effect I get on screen is available here: http://www.vademecum.net.pl/~auriga/zrzutekranu.png
Note how the icons on the desktop have acceptible fonts, as opposed to those in the xmms menu.

thank you

Arthur

jobano · 01-23-2005, 12:11 PM

that's a really sad subject...
I don't have this problem anymore ; but I don't know why...

It appears to be by adding some debian packages that this problem disappeared !
Mail me if you want to have some packages listings or any other informations about my system.

PMorph · 01-23-2005, 03:20 PM

How does the ~/.gtkrc look like?
Not sure if it helps at all, but you could try adding something along these lines:

style "gtk-default"
{
font = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}
class "*" style "gtk-default"

Good luck