Re: syncronizing gconf settings on a network

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:17:57PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > Hrm, well i have three machines which i recently upgraded to gnome 2.2
> > from debian unstable.  Two of the machines work fine.  On one of the
> > machines, the desktop *sometimes* comes up with font size = 0.01 points.
>
> That's probably not gconf-related, or at least not gconf-related
> beyond "some app set the wrong thing in gconf" - it's most likely some
> gnome-settings-daemon or Xft or gtk bug. I've seen it before but can't
> think of good stuff to try offhand.
>
> Basically the problem is getting the DPI setting all screwed - there's
> a gconf key for font DPI and an X server setting for it and also an
> xrdb database entry - I'm not sure how it all works. Report the bug
> vs. control-center/gnome-settings-daemon probably.


If a setting was screwed up you should expect the problem to be 
consistent rather than  `sometimes'.

Andreas






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