Get rid of those huge fonts in Fluxbox
LinuxOne of the things that has plagued previous installs of Fluxbox, is that some of the fonts, unless specifically over-ridden in the style settings, are HUGE. After a lot of configuration tweaking, gnome-settings-daemon running, etc. I finally found the root of the problem. It was nvidia's fault!
Previously, I have often noticed, and been slightly annoyed, that the font for my username/password in the GDM was pretty over-sized. But, since that was just a temporary screen I just kinda let it slip. What I found was a little thing called "EDID" that was sensing my resolution, and among other things, assigning a DPI value.
The EDID includes manufacturer name, product type, phosphor or filter type, timings supported by the display, display size, luminance data and (for digital displays only) pixel mapping data.
There is an xorg option to totally ignore the EDID: Option “IgnoreEDID” “true”
But I opted to just bypass the DPI settings...
Here is my device section from my xorg.conf: (notice the UseEDIDDpi option right before the closing section)
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300]"
Driver "nvidia"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
EndSection
Voila, no more huge fonts in the GDM, or in Fluxbox!
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