Comment 57 for bug 118745

Hi,

just a note about the progress of this bug on my system ; Dell Precision M4300 (Dual 64bits + nVIDIA Quaddro FX360M, Gutsy 32bits installed from tribe5 liveCD then regulars dist-upgrade ; nvidia-glx-new installed and working; compiz enabled)
I didn't encounter any font size problem since installation, except this morning.
Following the upgrade 30min ago, my screen became tinily unreadable after reboot. gnome-terminal was 30pixels heigth with only 2px blinking cursor. I launched "gnome-appearance-preferences", and changed font sizes, but it did not seem to affect gnome-terminal (it affected the rest of the gnome interface). I tried to click on "details" of the "fonts" tab of gnome-appearance-pref and it crashed.
Relaunched gnome-appearance-preferences from gnome-terminal and "details" made it crash too.
Relaunched gnome-appearance-preferences from xterm (which font size was readable though) and "details" worked, but the resulting window was larger than the screen (which is 1920x1200...).
I noticed that the DPI was 50, i put it back to 145 (which is the DPI detected by gimp) and everything went just back fine.

Perhaps GNOME could use the GIMP routine to correctly detect the DPI settings of Xorg ? I never saw it fail on any of my systems, gimp always did detect DPI correctly (even when horiz and vert DPI are not the same (which is the case on my screen, 147x145 or such).

As you can see on the capture, 145 DPI made the fonts bigger (i'm going to put them back to size "6" which fits me best), but the font previews in gnome-appearance-preferences didn't get updated. Closing it and reopening it does the job, and fixes the fonts details beiing too wide.

So, everything is fixed for me, but the upgrade from last night broke something that was OK since tribe5.
Anyway, thanks for all comments in this bug, they helped me find the solution.
Best regards,