Hello, I have a problem I guess is XF86 based that I do not underdstand. I run a suse9.0 desktop as well as a suse9.0 laptop. The desktop has a resolution of 1280x1024 at 90x94 DPI (xdpyinfo). This value is correct when I take the resolution and divide it by the the dimension of the screen. The laptop has 1400x1050 pixel at 124x124 DPi (xdpyinfo) and this is also the correct value. The strange thing I observed now is that in applications like Staroffice or koffice identical fonts seem to have different dimensions. On one system they seem to be some percent wider. In eg. a presentation document this leads to the very annoying fact, that on one system eg some text is displayed on one line and on the other system the same text is broken up into two lines. Actually its not only the same text, butthe very same document with identical So or koffice versions on both systems. So the complete layout can change if the same document is displayed on the other (as far as software is concerned "identical") system. I first thought this might be a trouble of the Beta Version of Xfree that came with suse9.0 and compiled XFree86-4.3.0-111 used in suse8.2 on my system and installed it on both machines. Now again on each seperate machine the linebreaks changed compared to the suse9.0 Xfree version, but unfortunately the very same document still shows different linebreaks on both systems. Another effekt is that graphics placed somewhere on the page (not anchored in the paragraph) are really always at the same position but the text around them varies due to the different fontrendering. This makes porting a presentation or other text documents to another system a real pain :-( As far as I can say this is a problem of the fontscaling machine but I have no clue if its really a bug or perhaps a misconfiguration of my system. Anyone any idea? Any advice is welcome. If someone needs more information I'll tzry to provide it. In the document I tried both the staroffice internal Font Thorndale as well the MS True Type Font Times New Roman. With both the effect remains the same. Thanks in advandce for any help Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke@uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------