[NTLUG:Discuss] Font Madness in X(KDE)

[Robert Pearson]

On 2/28/06, Stephen Davidson <gorky at freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I am having an issue where my system fonts in KDE are HUGE(think 80
> chars wide, but on a 1280x1024 screen), but where applications use
> normal fonts, they are properly sized.  (For example, the window label
> for this email, the title chars are the height of two lines for this
> email.  Lets not even talk about apps that use the System settings for
> their windows.
>
> I am running OpenSuSE 10, and after googleing, found a reference about
> using 100dpi fonts.  So, downloaded and installed, and now Applications
> that use their own font definitions rather than the System are properly
> set up.  Which leaves me stuck with the System Fonts, and applications
> that use those settings (Like Eclipse!).
>
> Btw, fonts were working properly, until I used SAX2 to add another
> pointer, specifically a new mouse with Wheel.  Why changing THAT messed
> up my fonts, I don't really know.

If you haven't already tried Steve Baker's excellent fix you might want to try
this fix first.
SaX sometimes gets confused and and writes the new config file incorrectly.
It makes a backup of the config file before creating the new one.
On my SuSE 9.3, with xorg, the files are "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (new one)
and "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.saxsave".
If you have tried SaX or YaST both of the files will contain the bad lines.
I have had good luck manually editing the file back to a known working
configuration. The reason for this is that the error may have occurred
in
an area of the file that you are not changing with SaX or YaST.
Then the new new file will still not work right.
For example, the new mouse information got put in wrong by SaX and is
screwing up everything past that point.

If the files are unchanged since you ran SaX try a "diff" on them and see
what the differences are. You should see the new mouse in the new file
no other changes.