huge fonts

pauledwards03 · 05-13-2007, 03:35 AM

My fonts used to look like this: (sorry for the compression, photobucket limits resolution) desktop is 1900x1200.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../snapshot1.png

now, after installing a few things (xmms2, dependencies, various themes and stuff), I have comparatively enormous fonts in all my menus and titlebars and everything except for firefox. it looks like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../snapshot4.jpg

close up of an app:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../hugefonts.jpg

how do I get them back to normal?

thanks.

-paul

macemoneta · 05-13-2007, 09:11 AM

From the menu System->Preferences->Fonts, verify that your font settings are as you want them. Also, click on the Details button at the bottom, and verify that your resolution setting is correct.

pauledwards03 · 05-13-2007, 01:39 PM

screen resolution is 1900x1200, I forgot to say this is XFCE4, so there is no system preferences menu, aside from user interface, and it is set to 8pt sans. The font under window manager settings is also 8pt.

macemoneta · 05-13-2007, 01:57 PM

Not the screen size resolution, the DPI setting (dots per inch). If that gets changed, all fonts are scaled. I don't know where you would change that in XFCE4.

pauledwards03 · 05-13-2007, 10:17 PM

Ah, yes that was the problem. I googled around and had to add a line to ~/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb:

Xft:dpi 96

and ":unscaled" to the end of a line in the xorg.conf in the font files section