Bug#578813: Changed my fonts to too big size permanently

Juhapekka Tolvanen juhtolv at iki.fi
Thu Apr 22 20:00:06 UTC 2010


Package: gdm3
Version: 2.30.0-2
Severity: important

I installed GDM3 instead of GDM. When I was logging in, I clicked that
Accessibility options -icon. I tired out, what will happen, if I click
that option that changes font size to bigger. I did not like it, so I
disabled that option.

After logging in all my fonts are way too big! Even fonts in titlebar
of my window manager.

My desktop system is LXDE and it uses FVWM2 as its window manager.
FVWM2 reads its settings from it own plain text configuration file,
but somehow GDM3 was able to fuck all up. Did it change resolution of
all fonts, as dot per inch? Where did it put that setting?

It is also very irritating, when my GNU Emacs has way too big fonts
and therefore too big window, although even that setting is in plain
text configuration file.

Now I will delete my .gnome*-directories and install GDM back.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.112             add and remove users and groups
ii  aewm [x-window-manager 1.3.12-2          a minimalist window manager for X1
ii  aewm++ [x-window-manag 1.1.2-5           minimal window manager written in 
ii  awesome [x-window-mana 3.4.4-1           highly configurable, next generati
ii  blackbox [x-window-man 0.70.1-2.2        Window manager for X
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.32            Debian configuration management sy
ii  fvwm [x-window-manager 1:2.5.28.ds-3     F(?) Virtual Window Manager
ii  gconf2                 2.28.1-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-session [x-sessi 2.30.0-1          The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 
ii  gnome-session-bin      2.30.0-1          The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii  gnome-terminal [x-term 2.30.0-1          The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii  gnome3-session [x-sess 2.30.0-1          The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 
ii  kde-window-manager [x- 4:4.3.4-5+b1      the KDE 4 window manager (KWin)
ii  konsole [x-terminal-em 4:4.3.4-1         X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii  lesstif-bin [x-window- 1:0.95.2-1        user binaries for LessTif
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.30.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1               1:2.4.44-1        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudit0              1.7.13-1+b1       Dynamic library for security audit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.24.3-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.24.3-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.10.2-6          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2              1.9.2-1           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0       0.22-1            Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0           0.22-1            a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.24-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.86-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdevkit-power-gobjec 1:0.9.2-1         abstraction for power management -
ii  libfontconfig1         2.8.0-2           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.11-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.28.1-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.24.0-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0            2.30.0-1          The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.30.1-1          A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.20.0-3          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.18-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules         1.1.1-2           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime         1.1.1-2           Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g               1.1.1-2           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpanel-applet2-0     2.28.0-3          library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.28.0-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.96-2            PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libpolkit-gtk-1-0      0.96-2            PolicyKit GTK+ API
ii  libpopt0               1.15-1            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-common        2.26.2-1          SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1            2.0.94-1          SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libwrap0               7.6.q-18          Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.3.3-3         X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                1:1.0.5-2         X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6              1:1.0.3-2         X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxklavier16          5.0-2             X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                2.7.7.dfsg-2      GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  lxsession [x-session-m 0.4.4-1           a lightweight X11 session manager
ii  lxterminal [x-terminal 0.1.7-1           desktop independent vte-based term
ii  metacity [x-window-man 1:2.30.1-1        lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  mlterm [x-terminal-emu 3.0.0-1           MultiLingual TERMinal
ii  mutter [x-window-manag 2.29.0-2          lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  olvwm [x-window-manage 4.4.3.2p1.4-25    OpenLook virtual window manager
ii  openbox [x-window-mana 3.4.10-1          standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  policykit-1-gnome      0.96-2            GNOME authentication agent for Pol
ii  pterm [x-terminal-emul 0.60+2010-02-20-1 PuTTY terminal emulator
ii  rxvt-unicode-ml [x-ter 9.07-2            multi-lingual terminal emulator wi
ii  upower                 0.9.2-1           abstraction for power management
ii  vala-terminal [x-termi 1.2-1             Terminal emulator for mobile devic
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emul 256-1             X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi                        1.30.0-2   Assistive Technology Service Provi
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.30.0-2   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.30.0-1   power management tool for the GNOM
ii  gnome-settings-daemon         2.28.1-3   daemon handling the GNOME session 
ii  xserver-xephyr                2:1.7.6-2  nested X server
ii  xserver-xorg                  1:7.5+5    the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                        2.30.0-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn  gnome-mag                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  gnome-orca                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.28.2-1   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3

-- 
Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv
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