Bug#536332: default gdm theme font size too large for login box

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 09 juillet 2009 à 02:42 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> I constantly am annoyed by two problems with the font size used in the
> default Debian gdm theme (both stable and unstable):
> 
> 1. The text entry box for username / password is not quite tall
>    enough for the font used in it. Descenders (ie, the tail of "j")
>    are cut off at the bottom. When entering the password, the circles
>    that are displayed for each letter entered are also cut off at the
>    very bottom.
> 
> 2. If you use the gui to configure gdm, it prompts for the root
>    password to be entered. This prompt is too wide for the login 
>    window, and gdm goes ahead and displays part of the words to the left
>    and part to the right of the ¨window".

It doesn’t happen for the screen resolutions I’m using, so this is
probably a bad interaction between font sizes specified in points vs.
box sizes specified in pixels.

Could you paste the output of "xdpyinfo |grep -A2 ^screen" ?

Thanks,
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