Bugzilla – Bug 143353
fonts much smaller (comparing to preview3)
Last modified: 2006-01-19 09:20:53 UTC
After installing SLES10 preview4 all fonts almost in all applications are much smaller (e.g. kmail) than they were in preview3. Although fonts in preview3 were little bit bigger than I would expect, this is too small for standard usage.
does the info in xdpyinfo match your monitor?
I don't know how to answer this question:( I would say yes (i can't see anything wrong there), but I'm not sure. The output of xdpyinfo is attached. (I have Samsung SyncMaster 910T - 19" LCD with 1280x1024). Can you be please more specific what could be wrong and what should I check? Thanks.
Created attachment 63437 [details] xdpyinfo output
well, is your monitor "382x302 millimeters"? And to answer for you: very likely if it's really 19'' Next question: what does this output: fc-match -v 'sans serif:size=11' And what does kcmshell fonts show?
it's really 19". I don't know the dimmensions (on samsung web there is sth like: 416.6x349.4x60.2 without stand). fc-match output is attached kcmshell fonts shows on Desktop: Sans Serif 11, fixed width monospace 10. Everything else is Sans Serif 10.
Created attachment 63458 [details] fc-match -v 'sans serif:size=11' output
ok, so it says you'd get 'nimbus sans l' in 11.4 pixel - which is ok. Now it's time for a screenshot of: xfd -fa 'sans serif:size=11'
Created attachment 63462 [details] xfd -fa 'sans serif:size=11' output
actually the screenshot looks quite good. E.g. the kmail also does not look really ugly. I can read it. I just reported that I liked the font/size in preview3 better and that I think now it is pretty small. The problem is more obvious in firefox for some reason. E.g. this testbox I'm right now writing in has incredibly small font...
s/testbox/textarea/
textarea { font-size:12px; } - so it should be 12px. Now try fc-match -v 'arial,helvetica,sans-serif:pixelsize=12' (your firefox may be hard coded to a specific DPI btw - you can find that out by starting FC_DEBUG=1 firefox). But that would be a firefox issue and not KDE.
king:~:$ fc-match -v 'arial,helvetica,sans-serif:pixelsize=12' Pattern has 23 elts (size 32) family: "Nimbus Sans L"(s) style: "Regular"(s) slant: 0(i)(s) weight: 80(i)(s) width: 100(i)(s) pixelsize: 12(f)(s) foundry: "urw"(s) antialias: FcTrue(w) hintstyle: 2(i)(w) hinting: FcTrue(w) verticallayout: FcFalse(s) autohint: FcTrue(w) globaladvance: FcTrue(s) file: "n019003l.pfb"(s) index: 0(i)(s) outline: FcTrue(s) scalable: FcTrue(s) rgba: 5(i)(w) charset: set(s) lang: aa|ab|af|ast|ava|ay|ba|be|bg|bi|br|bua|ca|ce|ch|chm|co|cs|cv|da|et|eu|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|hu|ia|id|ie|ik|io|is|kaa|kk|kl|ku|kum|kv|ky|lb|lez|mg|mk|mt|nb|nds|nn|no|oc|om|os|pl|rm|ru|sah|se|sel|sh|sk|sma|smj|smn|so|sq|sr|sv|sw|tg|tk|tn|tr|ts|tt|tyv|uk|uz|vo|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|zu(s) fontversion: 0(i)(s) fontformat: "Type 1"(s) embeddedbitmap: FcFalse(w) add firefox: I'm using firefox from SuSE distribution (SLES10).
that information is fine too
maybe the KDE is really OK. I wouldn't say that the KDE look is unusable right now, it's just different from preview3. Maybe this is really a firefox problem....
What are your font settings in Firefox? Especially interesting are the monospace fonts if you speak about textareas. So font.name.monospace.x-unicode is most likely the font which is used for textareas in our bugzilla. This might be "Courier" in your case. Please set it to "monospace" and see if it looks better.
Yes. There was Courier. I've changed that to SUSE Sans Mono (there was no "monospace" in the selection - however kcmshell is saying I'm using monospace in kde) and now it's fine. Can this be default in SLES?
I will try to change the defaults for CODE10.
should be fixed in BETA1