Fonts in the GNOME login screen are disproportionately big
The login screen has disproportionately big fonts, and it sometimes also applies to the titlebar font during a GNOME session. Approximately, the size is 72 where it's supposed to be 10. I regularly get this on the Ubuntu LiveCD titlebars, on the Ubuntu Desktop login screen, and sometimes on the Ubuntu Desktop titlebars (but a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace solves that.) Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does not solve the login screen.
This does not apply with Sans only: I kept getting the huge font issue for the titlebar also after I changed it to Free Sans (haven't had it yet with DejaVu Sans Condensed yet tho).
On any themed greeter, the only parts affected are the input box, the user list, the menus and the dialog boxes (which take more than the full screen to display!); on the standard greeter it instead affects everything on screen (you're practically typing blindly).
I found a workaround: setting the font size to 1 (or was it zero?) gives approx. a 10 pt font (or at it fixed the titlebars on Ubuntu Live).
My laptop is a Toshiba Equium M70-272.
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