https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835299 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835299#c6 Egbert Eich <eich@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |eich@suse.com InfoProvider| |mrmazda@earthlink.net AssignedTo|sndirsch@suse.com |coolo@suse.com --- Comment #6 from Egbert Eich <eich@suse.com> 2013-08-22 10:07:59 UTC --- This xmessage window has existed for many years in X sessions started by a display manager which still use the xdm session startup and shutdown scripts. It has been part of those scripts for as long as I use SUSE at least. At the time it was added screen resolutions were low and there was no issue with readability of the default font. xmessage is an application belonging to the set of X.Org applications that still stem from the early days of the X Window System. It uses server side fonts font rendering (core fonts), fonts can only be controlled by Xresources. core fonts don't allow screen resolution dependent font scaling. A solution would be to a. Set a resource before starting xmessage which sets a different and bigger font. However considering the range of screen resolutions we have today, We could not just pick a single font so this would be difficult. b. Replace xmessage with some more modern applcation providing similar services but doing client side fonts. Not sure if such a thing exists. c. Throw away xmessage (ie deleting it from the xdm startup scripts). With an xmessage window no longer showing we will no longer seeing complaints about it not being readable. This is not an xmessage issue as xmessage itself is working as expected but a 'improve openSUSE look and feel'. Thus assigning this to the xmessage package owner is the wrong strategy. In openSUSE a solution like c - although it is a quite harsh approach - has often been employed to get rid of some annoyance. In any case, researching the different options would be something for the openSUSE community to find out. Thus assigning to the openSUSE project manager. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.