Bug 10625 – Huge fonts in mozilla/galeon fields after logout/re-login

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andy Dustman 2002-11-12 07:46:07 UTC]

After initially logging in and running either mozilla or galeon, everthing looks
normal; see before.jpg. Logging out and logging back in again causes the fonts
used for fields to be huge; see after.jpg.

Workaround: After logging out, kill the X server with CTRL-ALT-backspace. Fonts
will then be normal again.

I'm using Luxi serif and Luxi sans for my fonts. When the fonts are huge,
changing fonts in the Preferences seems to have no effect.

[Comment 1 Andy Dustman 2002-11-12 07:47:19 UTC]

Created attachment 5604 [details]
Before logout/login

Normal text display

[Comment 2 Andy Dustman 2002-11-12 07:54:17 UTC]

Created attachment 5605 [details]
After logout/login

After re-login, fonts used for entry fields/drop downs are humongous.

[Comment 3 Andy Dustman 2002-11-12 09:15:50 UTC]

Created attachment 5607 [details]
List of installed packages

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-11-15 12:06:03 UTC]

And if you use another font?

[Comment 5 Andy Dustman 2002-11-18 10:42:31 UTC]

The GTK+(-1.2) theme font is used for mozilla/galeon input fields. I've been
using luxi sans for the theme font. After switching to helvetica, the problem
goes away. Luxi sans is a Type1 font (in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1),
*and* a truetype font (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF). Helvetica is a bitmap font
(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/100dpi). Looking at /etc/X11/fs/config, Type1 might be used
before TTF.

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2002-11-19 13:29:36 UTC]

Guess that solves it.

[Comment 7 Andy Dustman 2002-11-19 16:09:33 UTC]

That doesn't solve the problem. The problem persists with certain types of fonts,
possibly just truetype fonts.

[Comment 8 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-11-20 06:57:05 UTC]

Have you created fonts.scale and fonts.dir files for this font properly ?
Did you reorder your fontpath's for freetype fonts to be localted first ?
Please post the fonts.scale, fonts.dir and encodings.dir files for directory
that contains this font.

[Comment 9 Andy Dustman 2002-11-26 10:47:29 UTC]

Created attachment 5964 [details]
XF86Config

This has the original font path order as generated by the configurator.

[Comment 10 Andy Dustman 2002-11-26 10:51:52 UTC]

Created attachment 5965 [details]
XftConfig

Original configuration of XftConfig

[Comment 11 Andy Dustman 2002-11-26 10:53:33 UTC]

Created attachment 5966 [details]
fs/config

Original xfs configuration

[Comment 12 Andy Dustman 2002-11-26 11:02:13 UTC]

Origin of luxi sans:

andy@kenny Type1 $ qpkg -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l048013t.pfa
x11-base/xfree *

andy@kenny TTF $ qpkg -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf    
x11-base/xfree *

XftConfig gives the order as:

# Standard XFree86 Type 1 fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
# TTF fonts
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"

[Comment 13 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-11-26 17:28:06 UTC]

Have you tried to put the TTF dirs before the Type1's in XF86Config (or
fs/config if using xfs)
and XftConfig ?

[Comment 14 foser (RETIRED) 2002-12-09 12:46:04 UTC]

no more traffic, closing. reopen if needed with requested info.