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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

Overly large fonts

Bug #324518 reported by Max Bowsher on 2009-02-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #345189: MASTER regression after switching system font size to 13.333 pixel - fonts appear too large in some apps that do hand made font sizing - treating pixel units as point units. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

After today's libgnome update to stop pinning to 96 dpi, fonts became excessively large. System is an Acer Aspire One running current Jaunty.

However, xdpyinfo reports correct information:
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (195x113 millimeters)
resolution: 133x135 dots per inch

Given the correct information above, I'm not sure this necessarily is a bug in the driver or not, but it is certainly true that the default sizing of the fonts according to the detected DPI is much less of a useful default than the size based on the fixed 96 DPI that GNOME used before, so it's certainly a user-experience regression whatever the ultimate cause.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.1-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-6-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-3ubuntu1) ) #17-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 30 15:34:36 UTC 2009

SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-6-generic i686

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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote on 2009-02-02:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LsHal.txt Edit (101.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LsMod.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LsPci.txt Edit (13.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (19.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (20.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
glxinfo.txt Edit (6.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (254 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
system.txt Edit (276 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (46.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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kingttx (kingttx-tomslinux) wrote on 2009-02-03:

#2

lspci output Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain)

I can confirm this issue, although this computer has ATI graphics (see lspci.txt).

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kingttx (kingttx-tomslinux) wrote on 2009-02-03:

#3

xpdyinfo.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain)

...adding xdpyinfo.txt as well.

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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote on 2009-02-03:

#4

Likewise, I also have the issue on my ThinkPad Z61p, ATI graphics. So it's looking like it's not a driver issue, sounds more like the existing font scaling algorithms bias themselves toward excessively large fonts, making inefficient use of screen real-estate.

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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote on 2009-02-05:

#5

Incidentally, on my desktop system, the fonts have changed in the other direction, becoming slightly smaller. xdpyinfo says 85 dpi there.

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