[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#284229: Bug#284229: XFCE4: Fonts are smaller if X was started by 'startx'

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On dim, 2007-08-19 at 22:59 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> i am running testing and recently did an "apt-get dist-upgrade".
> afterwards, the fonts under both gdm and xfce became a lot larger.
> however, if i start xfce using startx instead of gdm, then the fonts
> are the normal size.
> 
> let me know what i can do to try to help debug this.

Iirc, gdm by default starts X with -dpi 96, while startx lets X detect
the correct size. You may want to check in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf
and search for the server-Standards command.

You can look at /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc or $HOME/.xserverrc to tune
"startx" behavior.

If the problem occurs in both gnome and xfce, I don't think it's xfce
related, and I'm quite positive it's a dpi setting.

Can you also check the following things:

xrdb -query | grep dpi
xdpyinfo | grep reso
grep DPI /var/log/Xorg.0.log

In previous Xfce version, DPI were forced to 96 via xrdb at startup,
that's not the case now because a lot of people don't have 96 dpi
displays. Can you check that?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis