Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

["B. Stia" <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello SuSE gurus,

Installed 9.2 on a new system (amd-64) Install was flawless. Never 
happier, fast !! Did all Yast updates

However, having trouble with several gnome based (gtk) apps. ie: 
Firefox,Gimp. NVU, and GQview having teeny tiny fonts that are almost 
unreadable. The problem is dpi vs. screen resolution which is obviously 
incorrect. I am speaking of the app menus, dropdown boxes, URL bar etc. 

I run a 20" Viewsonic  monitor which shows via xdpyinfo as 375x282 mm
but shows dpi of 54. Should be about 96 dpi. Have tried all of the 
options in  http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html which don't work 
except for Firefox where I can force the dpi option.  That still leaves 
me with NVU, Gimp, and GQview with the "teeny tiny fonts"

Almost 2 years ago I had the same problem in 8.2.  Ben Rosenberg told me 
about gnomecc which fixed the global problem. Seems that is no longer 
true with 9.2. there is no gnomecc or equivalent.  Is that now 
gconf-editor?, which I can't get to run?  (Maybe not enough Gnome stuff 
installed) 

Anyway, need big-time help from the guru's on this list. I cannot see 
the menus, dropdown boxes etc. on the gtk apps. What must I do to 
change the dpi to the proper number and get the app menus to be 
readable???

I know,very confusing. So many different things. Specific questions 
which I have not explained will be gladly answered.

Bob S