[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#500626: xserver-xglamo: fonts are very large in e.g. midori

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 21 May 2009 13:22:53 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:

[cc'ing the matchbox-panel bug #529321, some info is still in
#500626]

> > Now I've started all other applications on my FR, and they all seem
> > to work with this setting. With some details:
> > 
> > * gpicview has tiny fonts in the titles of floating dialog boxes but
> >   they are useless anyway.
> > * midori works fine, but again floating dialog boxes
> >   (Edit->Preferences) have a tiny title.
> > * The same with epdfviewer.
> > * The same with mumpot.
> > 
> > So there seems to be a pattern - titles of floating/independent
> > dialog windows are tiny; in practice that's no problem but there
> > seems to be some underlying problem.
> 
> Without seeing it myself, I assume that these titles are rendered by
> matchbox-window-manager, which maybe uses fixed pixel-based sizes – just
> as matchbox-panel. 

Sounds plausible.

> I assume this problem would then not occur with other
> window managers.

Probably; maybe someone with a different WM could check?

Cheers,
gregor 
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