From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 01:55:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9D416A403 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:55:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD2213C43E for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:55:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4G1tPNS010701 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 18:55:25 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-174-148-212.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.174.148.212]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4G1tOlS029195 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 18:55:25 -0700 Message-ID: <464A648B.4030400@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 18:55:23 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <464A54B9.70106@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <464A54B9.70106@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.5.15.184033 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: Subject: Re: Default interface font size in Firefox & Thunderbird 2.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:55:26 -0000 Erin Conn wrote: > Okay, I think what I'm seeing is that since upgrading to the 2.0 > versions of these applications, they're taking a font size that looks a > few points higher than what's set in gtkrc-2.0. If I set the font down > to Arial 10 in gtkrc-2.0 it looks about right in Firefox and > Thunderbird, but then my other gtk2 apps have a font that's too small. > If I set it to Arial 12 like I had it I get the ugly big fonts in FF and > Thunderbird. I don't think it's my user settings; I tried a completely > clean config in my guest account (all GTK, firefox, thunderbird, and KDE > configs wiped) and still saw the same behavior. Are you using xorg-6.9 or xorg-7.2? If you're using xorg-7.2 then it's sort of known behavior. -Garrett