[SOLVED] HUGE login text size!

[Anathallo]

Hi, on a fresh install of Hardy the login text is Massive!
I found this thread on it, unfortunately I have no idea how to do any of this since I am new to Linux http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=867601&highlight=huge+font

Help is greatly appreciated.

[halitech]

open a terminal (Applications - Accessories - Terminal) and type in

gksu gedit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
then look for the section that says

[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0

after the -audit 0, add

-dpi 96

reboot and see how that looks

[Anathallo]

Thanks, but that didn't work :(
Still totally illegible.

[halitech]

did it make any change at all? might just need to up the number or lower it to make a difference

[halitech]

I checked that thread and it linked to another thread that has some ideas. try checking here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786963&highlight=96+dpi

[alienexplorers]

You could try loading startup manager and using that to set boot text height.

[Anathallo]

You could try loading startup manager and using that to set boot text height.
How do I do this?


Bumping this topic as I have tried everything in this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ghlight=96+dpi and nothing has worked yet. :( Still massive text in login box.

[Anathallo]

Bump :<

[halitech]

look for it Synaptic, I dont use it so not sure exactly what it is called

[philinux]

It's called startupmanager.

Either install via synaptic, the menu item ends up in system>admin

or

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

from the terminal.

It sets boot up screen res and can modify grub. Excellent little gui.

[Anathallo]

Ok, I installed it. But I am unsure of what setting to change to modify the font.

[anotherdisciple]

This worked for me...

Open a terminal and type:


sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

in Section "Device" add this...



Option "DDC" "No"

save and log back in

[anotherdisciple]

PS- your terminal is under

Applications--> Accessories--> Terminal

[philinux]

Ok, I installed it. But I am unsure of what setting to change to modify the font.


Look at the Display Resolution setting it's on the first tab that opens when you run SUM.

[eggdeng]

I had this problem on a fresh install using the ati driver. The solution in my case was simply to install the restricted driver.

[Anathallo]

:D I tried both of your ideas so I am not sure which one worked, so thank you both :)

[philinux]

:D I tried both of your ideas so I am not sure which one worked, so thank you both :)

Interesting to know what the display resolution was and what you changed it to.

[Danjoh]

Can't answer for him, but my laptop is 15.4" with resolution 1280x800

What solved it for me was this post:

In your /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file you will see a section like the following:

[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0 -dpi 96

You can add a dpi option here (96 dpi in my example).

That worked for me, so never tried the DDC thingy.
And while looking for a sulution, I've found people who have had the opposite problem (huge screens, and font text of 1 or 2 pixels).

Hope this helps, since this is something wich in my opinion should work correctly on a clean install =)