[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#500626: xserver-xglamo: fonts are very large in e.g. midori

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 21.05.2009, 00:32 +0200 schrieb gregor herrmann:
> > > > Summary:
> > > > Setting the dpi in ~/.Xresources _almost_ works ...
> > > Is matchbox-panel the only exception so far?  
> > I've seen it only in matchbox-desktop's title bar and in
> > mb-applet-menu-launcher, but I haven't done much testing of
> > applications.
> 
> Now I've started all other applications on my FR, and they all seem
> to work with this setting. With some details:
> 
> * gpicview has tiny fonts in the titles of floating dialog boxes but
>   they are useless anyway.
> * midori works fine, but again floating dialog boxes
>   (Edit->Preferences) have a tiny title.
> * The same with epdfviewer.
> * The same with mumpot.
> 
> So there seems to be a pattern - titles of floating/independent
> dialog windows are tiny; in practice that's no problem but there
> seems to be some underlying problem.

Without seeing it myself, I assume that these titles are rendered by
matchbox-window-manager, which maybe uses fixed pixel-based sizes – just
as matchbox-panel. I assume this problem would then not occur with other
window managers.

Greetings,
Joachim

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