Fonts in Kubuntu dapper turned huge, kcontrol display module gone

[oracel]

After doing a dist-upgrade yesterday evening, my fonts are suddenly very large. Doing a dist-upgrade now didn't make a difference. I had to adjust them from 11pt to 8pt to make them look "normal" again. Anyone know what's going on?

Additionally, when I go to "Display" in kcontrol, I'm just sent back to the welcome screen. I am not sure when this started happening though, since it's been a few days since last time I used it.

[Txukie]

Same problem with the fonts here, just changed them back to something I like. Have you filled a bug?

[oracel]

No I have not filed a bug. Good to hear that someone else has the same problem, that means it's not my fault ;) Where do we file bugs?

[codejunkie]

No I have not filed a bug. Good to hear that someone else has the same problem, that means it's not my fault ;) Where do we file bugs?
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu

[oracel]

Here you go: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/32442

[weatherman]

hehe on my computer the problem was that the fonts had turned really tiny and I kinda got used to it...now indeed they are bigger and seem huge, but probably they're more normal than before. Don't know if yours are huger than mine... ;)

[Zakalwe]

Perhaps it's a DPI issue or something similar? Does anyone rember exactly WHAT got upgraded?

[Txukie]

I think you should be able to see that on the logs.

[Gnurou]

I have the same problem. I noticed it because I forced my X server dpi setting to 75 dpi in kdmrc in order to have smaller fonts, a few days ago. After upgrading this morning, I got huge fonts. It looks like the dpi setting is completely ignored once you're logged in.

What I've noticed:

When KDM is started, the fonts size are in accordance with the DPI setting. I've tried several settings (75, 96, etc.) and the font size changed accordingly.
As soon as you're logged in, the DPI information seems to be completely ignored. My KDE and firefox fonts (that is, ALL fonts) have the same size, no matter the DPI setting, and despite of the fact the font size in KDM is correct. xdpyinfo shows the dpi setting I've set.
Switching to GDM and Gnome, I have the same problem: fonts ok in GDM, always the same (huge) size when logged in. KDM/Gnome and GDM/KDE, same thing.


So it doesn't look like a KDE-specific problem. It's a little bit annoying.

Edit: Just done some more tests. Running startx -- -dpi xx always give me the same fonts size, no matter the value of the dpi parameter. I've been able to find my correct fonts size by doing the following:

Killing KDM
Running 'X -dpi 75 & DISPLAY=:0 xterm'
In the term, running 'startkde'


There, the dpi setting is taken into account and the fonts have the right size. Probably, it's some script executed by both startx and graphical login managers that screws things up.

[OneWoman]

Same large font problem here since I upgraded my fglrx driver yesterday...

[tlindner]

me too

[Lure]

DPI and font handling is being changed and this results in issues you are seeing. kde-guidance will configure font DPI to matches nearest available font DPI for DPI < 140 (normal displays), however it will be left to actual DPI for high res displays (>=140).
At the same time default font sizes are being reduced to 8-10 range instead ot 10-12 ranges, which is right if DPI is set properly.
You should check your System settings and reduce font sizes (or set them to new defaults). It worked for me (147 DPI display).

[c0rrupt]

Is there a fix for this yet?

[Lure]

Yes - do not mess with DPI and manually change your font sizes to something smaller.
10 pt should look the same size no matter if you have 75 DPI or 147 DPI display - but DPI has to be properly detected. You can look for this in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or run xdpyinfo.
Some more info you can find here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AchimBohnet