Archive for May, 2010

Did you ever feel like changing the font settings in GDM? If you’re a user of NVIDIA’s proprietary driver GDM will show enormously large fonts if you’re using a display with a high number of DPI. Also enabling font smoothing using subpixel rendering might be desireable. To achieve both just run the following commands as root:

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf -s --type=string /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/hinting full
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf -s --type=string /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/antialiasing rgba
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf -s --type=string /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/rgba_order rgb
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf -s --type=int /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi 96
chown -R gdm:gdm /var/lib/gdm/.gconf
restorecon -r /var/lib/gdm