[Fedora-fonts-list] [Bug 360901] Smaller fonts in X in F8T3 after login

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Summary: Smaller fonts in X in F8T3 after login


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=360901





------- Additional Comments From nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net  2007-10-31 16:42 EST -------
You're probably hitting two things:

1. when you login your desktop is using system defaults, but after a short time
it reads your preferences in gconf, so if you ever customized something
font-related you'll see a transition when GNOME switches the settings from the
values inherited from the system to the values you chose

2. older GNOME versions miscomputed a value used to size fonts (they assumed
everyone had a 96dpi screen, which is not hardware reality). New GNOME versions
(as the one in F8) use an xorg-computed dpi value (like KDE) so depending on
your hardware, font sizes in GNOME are now bigger or smaller than you're used to
(unless your xorg is misconfigured its DPI value is exact)

What probably happened is F7 GNOME mis-sized fonts, you compensated in your user
settings by scaling them down, and now GNOME correctly sizes font your user
settings make them too small. Scratch your old user font settings and things
should return to normal.

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