Re: font size changed recently...why?

• Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> 2007-08-16
  > I'm running Lenny on my desktop, and I upgrade regularly. I run X at
  > 1152x864 on a 19" monitor, and have been doing so for years. Sometime
  > recently, perhaps within the last 10 days or so, the sizes of several
  > of my fonts have changed, and I am at a loss to figure out why. The
  > world has changed too much, and I no longer know where to look. My
  > screen resolution has not changed, and my X server knows the correct
  > dimensions of my monitor and has an accurate DPI calculation. It is
  > not something in my own personal settings, because the font used to
  > echo my username and draw the bullets when I type my password in gdm
  > have also shrunk.
  

I am moving from Testing to Stable, and my Testing has the same problem. The cause, I inferred from "xdpyinfo", was that Stable is at 96 DPI while Testing has unexpectedly changed to 75 DPI. Stable does not have such unexpected behavior, that is why I am moving to it.

-- 
Masatran, R. Deepak <
http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>



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