Ok... I know it is bad form to follow up your own email, but... I'd say that I was the first person to hit this because I realize that I stupidly had been messing with the new apps that come with RH8. Yep, I had inadvertently set the global X dpi to something insane. Interesting to note which parts of the system pay attention to that one and which pays attention to other things. So, sorry. I was dumb. Font size problem has nothing to do with gnome2, although I'd like to know what the deal with the evolution settings was... too many hours trying to get a kernel that works for all the stuff on the machine, I guess. Apologies. ast On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 13:17, Andrew S. Townley wrote: > Hello. > > I doubt that I'm the first one to hit this, but I've been trying to > figure out what happened for most of the day now and have drawn a > complete blank with all the google searches that I could think of... > > Here's the situation: > > Installed RedHat 8 and started using the new environment. A little > different, but no major issues. Once I got sorta "settled" with the > environment it was time to start making things work on my notebook that > didn't work with the stock kernel. > > Long story short, I downloaded the 2.4.19 source, applied the 2.4.19-ac4 > patch and the acpi patch, built the new kernel, rebooted, and logged > back into the machine. So far, so good. Started evolution again and it > had forgotten my settings. This used to happen with the 4.x netscapes > after a kernel upgrade too to some degree (you'd have to agree to the > license stuff), but no big deal. Then, I started galeon and started to > view sites... the fonts on almost every web page were taking up about > 1/3 of the 1024x768 screen for the height of the characters. > > It seems to have affected everything because when I did a make xconfig, > the tk buttons were so big that the entire window wouldn't fit on the > display! The fonts for tk weren't huge, but they are in certain strange > places. > > My question is does anyone have any idea why this might have happened? > Seriously, I'm sorry if this is something that is obvious, but I've > certainly missed it... It also doesn't make a difference if I > subsequently boot with the original kernel. > > Basically, it has made the web browsers and tk very difficult to use on > my system due to the monster fonts. Any suggestions or assistance would > be most appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > ast > >
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