Font DPI in Gnome wrong in Gutsy on MacBook

[Tim Hull]

In Ubuntu Gutsy on my MacBook, the default font size/DPI for Gnome is wrong.

In the case of running on the MacBook hardware natively, this means extremely large fonts - with Gnome defaulting to 112 dpi.

In the case of running on VMware Fusion with the same resolution, this means extremely small fonts - with Gnome defaulting to 75 dpi.

On Feisty, both configurations default to 96 dpi and have reasonably-sized fonts. Changing to 96 dpi in Gnome (Font control panel) in Gutsy makes the fonts better, though they are still a bit larger than they are in Feisty with the same setting. This is wrong on two counts - 1) the fonts should be set reasonably after install as in Feisty
2) The actual DPI of the screen is 113 dpi - at that setting the fonts would be HUGE

Filed bug against GNOME as fonts outside of GNOME/GNOME apps are fine and the issue hinges on GNOME's DPI setting...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

GNOME started to use the xorg dpi value rather than coding 96 in gutsy, if the value is wrong it's due to xorg or a duplicate of bug #118745

[Tim Hull (thully)]

My bug is related to 118745 - it is just that the font is too BIG w/the new
settings, rather than too small. Changing the DPI from the real screen DPI
(which should work) to 96 makes the fonts tolerable, but they are still
quite big. I think this tends to happen on some screen geometries, and
1280x800 on a 13.3 in screen is one of them...

On 6/22/07, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> GNOME started to use the xorg dpi value rather than coding 96 in gutsy,
> if the value is wrong it's due to xorg or a duplicate of bug #118745
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: libgnome => xorg
>
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> Font DPI in Gnome wrong in Gutsy on MacBook
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121683
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[Tim Hull (thully)]

Closing - tribe 2 gets a more reasonable value on my MacBook (98 dpi - I actually figured wrong before).