Re: X-apps UI font is too big after installing FC8

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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.
>
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