Fonts in VirtualBox admin look huge and horrible

[parren]

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

Ubuntu Gutsy Beta: When I run VirtualBox, the fonts are big and ugly (not properly anti-aliased?). My install of VirtualBox (non-OSE) on Feisty 7.04 looks good, with fonts like in the rest of the system. Maybe a Qt problem? This is using the proprietary ATI fglrx driver.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Cannot confirm.

Can you please attach a screenshot?

[Conrad Knauer (atheoi)]

I also noticed a change when I went from Feisty with the PUEL version from virtualbox.org to the Gutsy with the OSE version. Here's a screenshot from Gutsy.

[parren (peter-arrenbrecht)]

OK, they no longer look horrible (anti-aliasing is in effect now), but still too large. See the attached screenshot.

[parren (peter-arrenbrecht)]

Here's another shot showing ugly widgets.

[parren (peter-arrenbrecht)]

And another, with subpixel smoothing turned on an ruining the VBox screen (while it clearly improves the rest of the system).

[Conrad Knauer (atheoi)]

Ah, OK, I figured out what the problem is; virtualbox-ose depends on libqt3-mt to give it its 'look-and-feel' For some reason, that's not configured in the same way that regular KDE apps (e.g. konqueror) are in Ubuntu. If you install qt3-qtconfig and run "qtconfig" you can change the fonts, widgets, etc. (if you have Virtualbox running after changes have been made, restart it).

I don't know if there's a way to set libqt3-mt apps to use Gnome's settings. I'll have to look into that...

[Conrad Knauer (atheoi)]

I was able to reproduce the issue and find a sub-optimal way to deal with the problem.

[Conrad Knauer (atheoi)]

Ah, now I'm making progress! I read on
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/unique-look-ubuntu-look
that you can give QT3 apps a human look-and-feel by getting this file:
http://files.myopera.com/area42/files/qtrc
and (slightly different from the instructions he gave), use it to replace the one in ~/.qt

Screenshot attached :-)

[parren (peter-arrenbrecht)]

Worked beautifully. Thanks.
-peo

[Marc Quinton (mquinton)]

I have also this problem with large fonts and icons in VirtualBox controler, but inside virtualbox windows.

[Marc Quinton (mquinton)]

running kcontrol has been good for me, to setup fonts size.

[Nicolas Joyard (joyard-nicolas)]

Hi
This bug is a duplicate of bug 98729 and is now fixed.