Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:50:29 +0100
To: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>

Hello,

Here's the outputs from ps aux and the server settings for startx, kdm
and gdm:

startx - fonts comes up fine:

ps aux | grep x gives:

piers 948 0.0 0.1 2300 644 tty2 S+ 17:38 0:00 xinit
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
piers 1003 0.0 0.1 2972 872 ? Ss 17:38 0:00
/usr/bin/ssh-agent x-window-manager

ps aux |grep X gives:

piers 1231 0.0 0.1 2300 644 tty2 S+ 17:41 0:00 xinit
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
root 1232 39.5 7.4 366416 38160 ? S<L 17:41 0:03
/usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp

gdm - fonts comes up as nasty:

ps aux | grep X gives:

root 1094 12.4 7.5 367204 38948 ? S<L 17:40 0:04
/usr/bin/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp -auth
/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7

kdm - fonts comes up as fine (same as startx):

ps aux | grep X gives:

root 1412 18.4 7.4 366908 38628 ? S<L 17:42 0:04
/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth /var/lib/kdm/A:0-VPn5cw

Looks like KDM and StartX is using 100dpi while GDM isn't setting any DPI.

Thanks very much for your help again ;)

Cheers - Piers

Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:04:56AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
> I just played with something else my self and noticed the difference
> with the dpi. The thing is the smaller the dpi the smaller the fonts
> you will get. Try setting it to "-dpi 75" instead of "-dpi 100", could
> be that 100 is your default for gdm and 75 for kdm.
>
>
>>>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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