[OFB Cafe] Fonts Question for the Gurus

[Donald R Spoon]

Timothy Butler wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Donald R Spoon wrote:
>   
>>> The only change I made was to replace KDM with GDM and this  
>>> resulted in
>>>       
>> some rather global changes on my screens.  It was most noticeable in  
>> the
>> Web apps that I use and the Desktop Icons.  I didn't make any changes
>> via kcontrol and I don't normally use Gnome so gnome-control-center
>> isn't a player here.
>>     
>
> 	Perhaps GDM is setup using X with a different dpi? I know there was a  
> way to check that, but it's been so long since I tried to manually  
> tinker with Xconfig files I can't recall off hand. And I'm the young  
> whippersnapper, too.
>
>   
>> I am just trying to understand how the Windows Manager I use can  
>> affect
>> these things...
>>
>> Maybe I need to change my Depends...  ;-)
>>     
>
> 	That's likely it. :-)
>
> 	-Tim
>
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>   
Ding!  The light bulb just came on!  It it used to be in the server 
definition section on gdm.conf .  IIRC KDM is just XDM with some bells & 
whistles added on.. (an oversimplification of course).

Thanks.

-Don Spoon-