On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Erik Ragnerstam wrote:
> Hi!
>
> My fonts are acting strange. The size of the fonts is changing from
> time to time. Between X starts it seems like the fontsize is randomly
> changed. There are two diffrent sizes that comes and goes between X
> restarts. Here is a small screenshot that illustrates the problem:
>
> http://w1.211.telia.com/~u21116373/fonts_problem.png
>
> As you can see the font size is diffrent but is in both cases "Sans 9".
> I get no strange error messages from the X output, neither can I find
> anything strange in the X log.
> This problem is not just in gnome, this happens in other X applications
> aswell.
> I am using gentoo, but had the same problem in LFS.
>
> Any solution to this, to say the least, annoying problem?
Does you config file have a "DisplaySize" line ?
What does
egrep -i 'dpi|mm' /var/log/XFree86.0.log
show ? Does it change with the problem ?
Does the size of the font depend whether the monitor is turned on
before or after you start X ?
It sounds to me as if the server is setting different DPI each time it
starts. This can be calculated from the DDC info the monitor gives the
server when it starts up, but this only happens if the monitor is
powered up.
If this is the problem, then try this:
"X -configure" should give you a config file in /root/XF86Config.new
Copy the DisplaySize line from the Monitor section and remove the
"#" commenting the line out.
Some applications and some fonts only work well with 75 or 100 DPI (dots
per inch) screens, so you could try values (in millimetres) to
make your server think your monitor is that pitch.
--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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