Matthew Caine Garrett wrote: this is a wag, but what about the Xfree*log files? during startup, do you get any complaints/warnings that werent earlier there? hth, jackc... > > 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Craig ImageIntegration 831-684-1375 jackc@imageintegration.com
