[SOLVED] Nothing I do will change the font sizes in Xfce 4.6 ?

handy · 2009-03-01 01:28:19

I have been using Xfce 4 for many months on Arch, I also use the xfce4-panel on Arch/Openbox.

I have been very happy with both of these configurations. I just upgraded to 4.6 & all of my fonts have become very small on my 24" 1920x1200 monitor. Nothing I try will change the font sizes, I have used everything I can find in the Xfce4 settings:

Appearance; only adjusts fonts for icons & I don't use icons.

Desktop; also only allows adjustment of the icon's fonts.

Window Manager; allows adjustment of Title font only (this does work).

Window Manager Tweaks; has no font settings.

So I am wondering if there is a configuration manager of some description, or a configuration file that I am unaware of that I must edit?

I can not use the 4.6 version of Xfce if I can not solve this font size configuration problem, it has even rendered the Firefox menu's & tab font sizes beyond my configuration!

Wapush · 2009-03-01 01:58:05

Have you tried to configure a custom DPI in Appearance --> Fonts tab?
You can use xdpyinfo to find what is your current DPI:

xdpyinfo | grep resolution

handy · 2009-03-01 02:19:02

Thanks for your reply.

It had carried my previous custom setting through, which is 96.

handy · 2009-03-01 02:24:53

I just turned off the custom setting & restarted X & at a quick glance, it looks like things are as they should be. ;D cool

I'll go & check on my Openbox / xfce4-panel & see if things are right there.

handy · 2009-03-01 02:32:06

The Arch/Openbox/xfce4-panel system I use still had the problem, what I found was that the lxappearance GUI config' tool had its font sizes set to 10?

So I changed them to the 20 I normally use & everything now looks good here too.

It has taken me a couple of hours to sort this out.

Anyway, thanks to your help Wapush, I got things sorted out now it seems. ;D

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[SOLVED] Nothing I do will change the font sizes in Xfce 4.6 ?

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