ZeeGeek posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted
below, on Thu, 12 May 2005 15:11:15 +0800:
> Thank you for your detailed explanation. I tried to add DisplaySize to
> xorg.conf, but the problem is still there. I guess it might help if I
> attach the screenshot so you can see what the menu is like.
You did restart X and fluxbox after the xorg.conf change, right? If not,
do so. If it works, what should happen is that even without
gnome-control-center running, it may change the font size on you, and
you'll have to adjust it from there back to something readable, but then
it should keep it regardless of gnomeCC running or not.
Interesting screen shot. I've never seen the gmail interface b4, so it
was educational for that, anyway. As for the menu, I didn't see a menu in
the screen shot (unless it was that small white block above the right top
of the browser window, in which case, yes, that /is/ small).
yes, you are right, that's the menu, it's extremely small.
In any case, what might be happening is that you have fonts adjusted to
one extreme to make up for the default at the other extreme. If that's
the case. then when set "right", it might still appear very small.
One thing I did for awhile was set KDE to start gnome-control-center when
it started, so everything got adjusted to use the gnomeCC sizes, then I
simply reset the fonts to something comfortable in that case, which of
course would mean they'd be HUGE if I didn't start gnomeCC, but since I
was starting it with KDE, all was fine. Of course, after I figured out
the issue and fixed it in xorg.conf, I didn't have to worry about that any
longer.
the only way I can do it now is to start fluxbox first and then launch gnome-settings-daemon from the terminal.
Do note that as I said, I haven't run fluxbox here, so I'm just going off
of what happened with KDE and gnomeCC. I expect it's the same issue, but
the effect may be somewhat different on the different WM/X-environment,
and may not respond to exactly the same work-arounds/fixes. If the
DisplaySize thing doesn't help, try running gnomeCC at fluxbox start every
time, and adjust your fonts to work correctly then. If that doesn't
work, perhaps the only thing that will is not to run gnomeCC except by
itself, then immediately restart fluxbox after you are done.
In any case, I certainly know the frustration you are experiencing, having
gone thru similar problems here, so even if I can't help, you at least
know there's someone else that has had the issue and understands what it
can be like (altho if that small rectangle /is/ your menu, it appears you
certainly have a more extreme case than I did!).
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