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Setting Font Settings for GDM
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
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about 3 months ago
Dude, why aren’t you using nouveau?!
about 3 months ago
“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.”
No, it will show them at…exactly the right size. Sheesh, I really wish people would get used to resolution independence, setting 96dpi on a 160dpi screen is just *dumb* (and then people complain about the Vaio P having ‘tiny fonts’, I mean, gah). I’m much more likely to adjust the settings with nouveau to match the settings NVIDIA uses. Thanks for the tips, though.