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libgnome package

  1. Bug #118745
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 118745

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Jean-Pierre Rupp (xenog) wrote : Fixed it in my computer

I "fixed" things on my computer this way:

First I changed /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom and added this lines to the end:

[server-Standard]
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0 -dpi 96

It's lovely that Gnome is able to change it's font size to suit whatever resolution my system is reporting. But it only makes sense really if EVERYTHING scales accordingly, I mean icons, and panels, toolbars, widgets, etc. if only fonts are scaled, the desktop doesn't look quite right, it gets distorted. So I don't care much about autodetected DPI, and I leave it as 96 dpi which seems to give the least distorted output for the desktop and most applications.

[server-Standard]
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0 -dpi 96

I then changed the two libgnome fonts (document font and inteface font) to be back at 10 dpi, if I leave them as 11 dpi and use a monospace 11dpi, Nautilus 11dpi and a Metacity 11dpi font, then fonts inside Firefox will look too small compared to the rest. This I fixed changing /usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_libgnome2-common so all text reading "Sans 11" would now read "Sans 10". Then I ran update-gconf-defaults.

I also added a value to the end of this same file:
/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/hinting full

And ran update-gconf-defaults again. This last setting fixes the problems with font weight with gnome-terminal and OpenOffice.org.

I hope this serves the developers.