Fonts in the GNOME login screen are disproportionately big

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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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bp (badpazzword) said :
#1

Reinstalling solved the issue.

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trmasaki (trmasaki) said :
#2

Reinstalling don't solve the issue

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CSijp (c-sijpestijn) said :
#3

I had a very good working 7.10 after updating from 7.4, where my Broadcom refused to work. In 7.10 everything was solved.
Updating to 8.04 was a disaster, no sound and no Wifi on my Acer 3610. Tried many many hours on forums to try to fix it. no result.
Went back to install 7.10 again, had now sound and wifi again, but idiotic great fonts in the heads.
Reinstalling and downloading all updates did not work. Trying to update again from 7.4 to 7.10, which did work perfectly, was impossible. Could only update to the damned 8.04,

What for heavens sake is happening with Ubuntu? Are you sabotised or so? Please come with a good working version again.

I go now back to Suse, wich I used before, but I loved 7.10!

Hope to get soon a clue to solve this misery.

C.Syp

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Eduardo Leiva (eleiva) said :
#4

Section "Screen"
       Identifier "Default Screen"
       Monitor "Configured Monitor"
       Device "Configured Video Device"
       Defaultdepth 24
       SubSecton "Display"
              Depth 24
              Virtual 1024 768

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Dave roi (daveroi) said :
#5

This is still an issue for me.
Ubuntu 8.10 and 8.04

1280x720 resolution. (720p)

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CSijp (c-sijpestijn) said :
#6

By installation of the latest version of Ubintu this problem does not
exist anymore.
But I have lost my password. so I have now a problem to stop my
subscription to this item.
I have no further problems, Ubuntu is again my favorite distribution.
Is het possible you can stop my subscription?
Greetings from C.Sijpestijn