Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:36:14 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: small fonts in new gdm Message-ID: <1064201774.376.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030922032720.GA783@gforce.johnson.home> References: <20030922015023.GA1806@gforce.johnson.home> <1064199133.376.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030922032720.GA783@gforce.johnson.home>
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--=-nGlmd+I3tlh/Gf00wNfV Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 23:27, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:52:13PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 21:50, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > I just got the new gnome-2.4 up and running. The first thing I > > > noticed is that the fonts in gdm are tiny, unlike in the previous > > > version. I tried setting a different theme but that did not > > > help. Also, the fonts in the logout dialog of a gnome session are > > > also extremely tiny. > > > > > > Is there any way to increase the size of those fonts? > > > > Funny thing is, mine look quite huge on my ATI desktop, and quite > > small on my ATI laptop. I haven't bothered to track this down, but > > you might be able to affect the fonts with a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 for root. > > I'd be interested in knowing your results. >=20 > Well, I tried restarting gdm via the startup script in > /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d, but that did not help. I needed to reboot for > another reason and when gdm came back up the theme I had previously set > was now in effect and the fonts were now a normal size. I do not know > why it did not take effect before. Perhaps a gdm process did not get > killed by 'gdm.sh stop' and was still hanging around. >=20 > However, although the fonts looked normal again, the keyboard could not > get focus in the login field and thus I could not login nor switch vtys. > I could select the reboot option with the mouse however. After playing > around with this a bit, it turns out that gdm2-2.4.4.1_1 can be started > from /etc/ttys (as gdm1 could) and the keyboard focus problem does not > happen. At least it works here on my -current system. Starting from > the startup script does not work (keyboard focus problem). Works for me on two -CURRENT machines. Did you copy the factory-gdm.conf over gdm.conf? Though, it is good news that gdm now works out of /etc/ttys again. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-nGlmd+I3tlh/Gf00wNfV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/bm4ub2iPiv4Uz4cRAttEAJ0YtQaiNwlTThJVAQqlt3g5xssevACcDHug hU+zj3qLTT7rcrTR73AyX+U= =BeVS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-nGlmd+I3tlh/Gf00wNfV--
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