Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:07:06 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: small fonts in new gdm Message-ID: <20030922040706.GA30097@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <1064201774.376.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20030922015023.GA1806@gforce.johnson.home> <1064199133.376.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030922032720.GA783@gforce.johnson.home> <1064201774.376.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:36:14PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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: > > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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? Yes. In fact, the entire gdm directory was fresh from the install. I backed up the old one and moved it out of the way. > Though, it is good news that gdm now works out of /etc/ttys again. Well, like I said, it works here, on my home machine. I will test it out on my work machine eventually but that will take a while because I want to test things a bit at home before committing to a machine with other users. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net
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