[wplug] SuSE font size help

[Robert Coutch]

I had something similar happen in the past when I imported some GTK themes 
into KDE.

To fix it I deleted the .kde and .kde2 directories in my home directory.

You'll lose all your kde settings for all your kde programs but you get a 
default setup after you start kde.

You could install Gnome using RPM from the command line if Yast is shot.

Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling Yast2 using RPM?


Hope this helps,

Bob

On Thursday 15 January 2004 10:18 pm, Benjamin Slavin wrote:
> I wasn't able to run YaST to install gnome (and am not familiar with
> "the suse way of doing things", so I couldn't do it otherwise).
>
> I was able to use KDE on my FreeBSD box to get a look at the KDE Control
> Center and could make out the icons on the SuSE box, and used that to
> change the font sizes from the Fonts menu... all to 30 point. (I still
> don't know how to make this change from the command line)
>
> I think the problem was this:
> * A point is a physical unit of measure (1/72 inch, I think).
> * SuSE recognized the dimensions of my display on its own (920mm x 525mm)
> * KDE scaled the output so that the 12 point font would display as 1
> pica (1/6 inch) on the display.
> * Because of the resolution, this ended-up being no more than a few
> pixels in height, which was displayed as unreadable text.
>
> I'll try to install Gnome at some point to see how it compares 'by
> default'.
>
> Hopefully I'll be able to install Freevo or MythTV, so I shouldn't need
> to use the desktop too often, but I thought I'd post a reply with what I
> believe was the cause of the problem.
>
> --Ben
>
>
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