I was told in private email that this behaviour is due to the
/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi key being an integer rather than a
float.
You can do something like this to repair:
(find out existing value):
$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi
(reset to float)
$ gconftool-2 --set --type float /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi [your value]
(unset entirely)
$ gconftool-2 --unset /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi
This does seem to repair the problem (prior to unsetting my DPI, I was
still getting the mis-rendering at least until today, using Lucid).
FWIW I'd manually set my DPI some releases ago (perhaps 2 years ago?)
due to rendering problems with evince. So I don't know what you will
want to do with this bug given that it probably mostly or entirely
happens to people who've manually edited a gconf key but I've reopened
for further triage based on this new info.
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
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gnome-appearance-properties crashes, or launches with an extremely wide and
empty window
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386573
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