[jaunty] Font becomes far too big

Thank you for this bug report. Is this how things were with a clean install? Was there anything you changed before you noticed your problem? What is the font size set at? Could you also give some hardware information such as your video card. Also, could you check what your screen resolution is set at? Thanks.

I'm having huge font issues in jaunty as well. Not nearly as bad as these guys, but everything doubled to tripled in size. This happened due to updates sometime over the last 24 hours. Not a clean install, but everything was fine until todays aptitude safe upgrade. As with others, gdm fonts are fine, but everything on the desktop is pretty huge. Sorry I don't know how to be more specific, I noticed there was a new kernel, and a bunch of xorg packages that upgraded.

Aha.

Looked at this page: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/X/Troubleshooting/HugeFonts, and:

~$ xdpyinfo | grep dots
resolution: 145x145 dots per inch

Going to System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts > Details... and then changing the Resolution spinner 96 put everything back to normal. I'm not sure if that will persist through reboots or restarting X, but I hope it at least points out the issue, if any :)

I had the same thing with my Jaunty VM. I didn't had the DPI set or enabled, but after the recent update, it was enabled. After disabling it again, the fonts were fine.
This didn't happen on my laptop that runs Intrepid but the Xfce from Jaunty (I want the new 4.6).

It was fine after a clean install, then did an update and then the fonts broke.

How should i fix this, i could only fix this via the terminal def not via GUI.

I have the same problem but I cant edit it by going through the dialogs, they're too big and I can't get anywhere with them. Is there another way to do it?

I tried xdpyinfo | grep dimensions and it showed 1152x864 pixels (322x241 miillimeters)
And xdpyinfo | grep resolution shows 91x91dpi. But it made no difference. I used grandr to switch the resolution to 1024x768 (although I use 1280x1024) and hit apply but it makes no difference.

I was finally able to set my dpi down to 96dpi.

I can confirm that the DPI on my system was set high. Where does this number come from? My laptop changes this DPI setting when I plug in my TV and sets it back when I unplug it. That behavior is not desirable. My netbook, whose resolution is similar to my TV, starts with high DPI by default after an update.

Fixing the resolution setting under fonts/details corrected the screen appearance.

FWIW, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/HugeFonts

I was also affected by this bug.

Solved using System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts > Details... by changing to 96 dpi

before : resolution: 129x133 dots per inch

I understand that Canonical want to make the best for our screens dpi - but this doesn't work on an Acer Aspire One (135x135dpi resolution, correctly identified) The best fix for me is to add

Option "NoDDC"

to the monitor section of my Xorg.conf.

If my Xorg.conf is empty I run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure -dpigh xserver-xorg' first.

Hope this helps.
T

I should add the above command will force a 96dpi default, so you should adjust where necessary (though I don't know how to change my dpi within Xorg.conf, or even if you can!)

Thank you for your bug report. Unfortunately, we can't fix it without more information. Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log to this bug report.

Thanks

I also suffered a problem with big fonts after an update on Jaunty (I had it previously installed since alpha 4 with no problems at all). It didnt became unusable but mostly annoying since big fonts usually dont look nice, being the most notable example, nautilus, where the fonts were big (ugly big) only in the part were the files are listed.

I fixed it by resetting all size fonts to 10 on appereance, but the strange thing is that when I went there, some fonts were set to 13.333333.

In any case, after looking at the images, it gives me the impression that my problem is not precisely the same you have...

Can you describe the problem you had after your upgrade, Pablo? We may have to create new bug report based on your incident.

I dont seem to reconfigure my fonts to the way they were previously. However, this is the thing...

I used the update-manager, and many fonts became bigger. Its not unusable or anything, and many fonts are displayed correctly, but some of them became bigger. For instance nautilus shows abnormally large fonts for the file names, update-manager shows some big fonts too, but there is no overall growth of everything.

Also, when accessing appereance->fonts, many fonts were listed with a size 13,33333333 (I dont remember precisely the number of 3s but they were more than three 3s), wich is very weird cause if one tries to change font size, it wont allow you to input more than three decimals.

In any case, I set all fonts to size 10 and it looks right now.

@Pablo: you're looking for bug #345189.

Same problem with huge fonts on eeepc 901

(eeepc 901)
In particular, from my Xorg.0.log attached in my previous post, you can see that the screen size is set to 270 x 158.
(II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 270 x 158
while it should be 195 x 113 mm