Hi You could try renaming your .gnome .opera directories in your home directory and starting gnome again. You'll then have to copy over the bits from your renamed .gnome directory to your new one. There may be some directories in your home directory that control 'X' also but I'm not sure. Robyn On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 02:00, Matthew Caine Garrett wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie >
