Matthew Caine Garrett wrote:

this is a wag, but what about the Xfree*log files?
during startup, do you get any complaints/warnings that
werent earlier there?

hth, jackc...

> 
> I've done something to screw up my font handling in my xf86 4.1.0
> installation and now Star Office and Opera only attempt to display using
> characters a half an inch tall. Even on my 1600x1200 display, this is
> unreadable and it renders the applications unusable.
> 
> I'm running Slackware 8.0 with the standard Gnome installation from that
> distro.
> I've upgraded to a 2.4.18 kernel, but I doubt that has anything to do with
> it.
> The Opera is the latest binary distro of 6.01.
> 
> I've tried to go through Programs>Settings>Gnome Control Center>Theme
> Selector>User Font and ...Gnome Control Center>Sawfish window
> manager>Appearance>Default font, but no joy getting my fonts back to a
> sane state. No other apps appear to be affected. I did an strace on both
> of them and the only thing I could see happening I didn't like was the
> write-ing of something to do with Xfree86-Bigfont to an X socket by the
> Star Office install script. I saw nothing out of the ordinary from Opera.
> 
> Where could these apps be getting the idea I want my text a half an inch
> high, and more's to the point, how do I convince them otherwise?
> 
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> P.S. Netscape 6.2.2 has the opposite problem, some web pages, no matter
> what I set the font size too, they remain tiny.
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