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  1. Bug #99145
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 99145

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Gabriel (giovino) wrote : Re: [feisty] GDM font seems to be to big or too high DPI

I confirm this bug in 8.04 Beta on an Dell XPS M1710 with a NVidia video card.

Steps to reproduce:

1.) Install ubuntu (fonts look good)
2.) Install nvidia driver (nvidia-glx)
3.) restart X
4.) username / password fonts are too large

Steps to fix:

1. edit /usr/share/gdm/themes/Human/Human.xml
2. change /usr/share/gdm/themes/Human/Human.xml

 <item type="entry" id="user-pw-entry">
                <normal color="#000000" font="Sans 12"/>
                <pos y="2" x="2" width="-4" height="-4" anchor="nw"/>
 </item>

TO

 <item type="entry" id="user-pw-entry">
                <normal color="#000000" font="Sans 10"/>
                <pos y="2" x="2" width="-4" height="-4" anchor="nw"/>
 </item>

Of course there could be other ways to fix but this worked for me.