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Very Large font in the Shutdown/Restart dialog in Oneiric

Asked by Alfagulf

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 64Bit.
After changing the Video card from ATI 6775 to Nvidia GTX-560, I noticed that when I am about to shut down or restart, the dialog box is rather large!!
I also noticed that in one other application (minbar) there are some very large fonts.
Also I had GoogleEarth showing very large menu fonts , but I found a solution by installing some 32bit libraries, I think.

Where in the system configuration can I adjust the fonts of the restart/Shutdown dialog box?

Thanks

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Alfagulf (alfagulf) said : 		#2

No one has any idea?

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Alfagulf (alfagulf) said : 		#3

Update: [Solved]
I discovered that even in a new fresh installation of Ubuntu Oneiric that the font size changes to large immediately after I install the NVIDIA proprietary driver!

After several weeks of googling and investigation, I finally I found the cause and the solution for this problem.

It seems NVIDIA driver detect my monitor and finds out that it is a Samsung SyncMaster T260HD and because this is a TV/Monitor, it assumes it is used as a TV, ie viewers are far from the screen and defaults to a certain DPI that causes the large font problem in some application!!
I am not sure why not all font are amplified however!!!

But the solution was to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following lines to the Device section:
 Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"
 Option "DPI" "96 x 96"

Also I found that for the above to work, I had to install this specific Nvidia driver:
"NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) (version current-updates)"

Now not only the shutdown dialog is in normal size but also other application like minbar.
I also think that my previous problem with Google earth is related to this issue; had I solved this problem before I installed Google Earth, It would have installed properly.

I hope this answer help others and save them some effort.

Thanks

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Givrix (geoffrey-mosini) said : 		#4

Hello,

Thank you for your contribution, it fixed my problem with large fonts under google earth. I had encountered this bug before, some software using the same libraries I guess.

So this fix works fine with Ubuntu precise, last nvidia "current-updates" driver and a GTX 460.

Cheers