i have this problem with huge fonts, but only sometimes, apparently at random. if i restart, all is well. then, after a day or two--poof! Huge text in firefox. if you find a reason, please post in this thread PJ On 1/21/08, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Henrik Frisk wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. I've been there but as far as I can tell, this > > affects the font size of the Desktop UI . My issue is only with some > > applications. I'm not a GUI wizard, but I think that applications > > that use its own, or gnome's GUI widgets for dialogs etc look good, > > whereas apps that rely on xorg have to large font sizes (tab > > description overflow the size of the tab etc.). I may be completely > > wrong about this though. Bottom line is ooffice and firefox looks > > good, gv looks bad (actually, not bad, just big). The emacs UI I > > resolved by setting the default font to the terminus font but I have > > to have to do that for all apps for which this is an issue. > > Ahh, ok. Perhaps it's just a matter of installing xorg-x11-xfs and > having that run? I believe that it was disabled by default in F8. I > haven't used any apps that still use the ancient X font setup instead > of fontconfig though, so I don't really know what the best solution > for making fonts work for those apps is these days. > > -- > Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Disobedience: The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. > -- Ambrose Bierce > > -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
