Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts

From: Micha Feigin (michf_at_post.tau.ac.il)
Date: 06/17/04

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    On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:27:10PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote:
    > Hello all,
    >
    > After a long while, finally got GDM to work with Windowmaker, but the
    > system fonts are a little horrible - am trying to fix it. After
    > extensive search on Google it seems that GDM sets the DPI of the X
    > server wrongly - anyone help me find out exactly where to set the
    > correct DPI? I've looked into GDM and added "-dpi 100" to the bottom of
    > the config file where it has the server start command, but it changes
    > the font size of the text in GDM itself, but not in windowmaker -
    > application fonts are fine, it's those fonts on the menus like "File,
    > Edit, View" etc that looks nasty.
    >
    > Thanks very much for your help in advance
    >
    > Cheers - Piers
    >

    I don't think its gdm that setting your fonts, but to test it out you
    can stop gdm (/etc/init.d.gdm stop) and try running X using startx and
    see if you still have the problem.

    I believe its windowmaker settings.

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