I've done something to screw up my font handling in my xf86 4.1.0 installation and now Star Office and Opera only attempt to display using characters a half an inch tall. Even on my 1600x1200 display, this is unreadable and it renders the applications unusable. I'm running Slackware 8.0 with the standard Gnome installation from that distro. I've upgraded to a 2.4.18 kernel, but I doubt that has anything to do with it. The Opera is the latest binary distro of 6.01. I've tried to go through Programs>Settings>Gnome Control Center>Theme Selector>User Font and ...Gnome Control Center>Sawfish window manager>Appearance>Default font, but no joy getting my fonts back to a sane state. No other apps appear to be affected. I did an strace on both of them and the only thing I could see happening I didn't like was the write-ing of something to do with Xfree86-Bigfont to an X socket by the Star Office install script. I saw nothing out of the ordinary from Opera. Where could these apps be getting the idea I want my text a half an inch high, and more's to the point, how do I convince them otherwise? -- Matthew Garrett magarret@cs.indiana.edu P.S. Netscape 6.2.2 has the opposite problem, some web pages, no matter what I set the font size too, they remain tiny.
