From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 05:07:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2760D16A417 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:07:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp3.clear.net.nz (smtp3.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC1E13C457 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:07:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from zmori.markir.net (121-72-81-186.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.81.186]) by smtp3.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JTC00AKN0WF1M00@smtp3.clear.net.nz> for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:07:28 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:07:15 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: <548759.7929.qm@web53404.mail.re2.yahoo.com> To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" Message-id: <4769F883.3050304@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <548759.7929.qm@web53404.mail.re2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071203) Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fonts, windows too large after 2.20 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:07:30 -0000 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Im not quite sure if im explaining this right, but i just upgraded Gnome (along with) > a number of other things) to 2.20 on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. Several things are > visually messed up. All the system fonts are displaying extremely large, whether > in the title bar, in a Terminal window, in Firefox tabs, etc. And i think the windows > themselves (the ones connected to specifically Gnome apps at least) are also > larger: im pretty sure that Terminal is larger than it used to be. > > > As far as I understand it, 2.20 uses a new font type compared 2.18 (anti-aliased vs bitmap). I had some other issues after the upgrade, and removed my existing .gnome2, .gnome2_provate, .gnome, .gconf, . gconfd, .fontconfig and .metacity directories - this resulted in respectable looking fonts again... Now there is hopefully a less drastic way to proceed... may just removing .fontconfig may sort it? On the I've seen suggestions about changing DPI setting from 99->96 in Preferences->Appearance->Fonts->Details. Initially I tried this and things looked better. Cheers Mark