I''m experiencing this annoying big fonts trouble when I start applications such as OpenOffice and the dialog box when setting the Screen Resolution. When I mean the fonts are big, it''s because I can''t even read a message like Move... Close... or messages alike. I think this problem happens only in Dialog Boxes or Menus, but a few work fine, like the game ones. My question is: 1- HOW DO I MINIMIZE THE FONT SIZES IN THE PLACES MENTIONED BEFORE? thanks in advance

Are you working in KDE? If you are, you can go into the Control Centre->Look and Feel->Fonts and change the sizes of fonts. If you''re using GNOME, move to KDE . Seriously, I don''t use GNOME, so I can''t say.

He''s probably using neither cause RedHat heavily modified both KDE and GNOME to create BlueCurve.

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I thought Bluecurve wasn''t a desktop, but a generic theme...

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quote: Original post by doodle_sketch
I thought Bluecurve wasn''t a desktop, but a generic theme...

It is (for Metacity, Gnome, GTK+ 1.2/2.x, Nautilus, KDE, and Qt). But Red Hat did change lots of little things in KDE and to a lesser extent Gnome.

BTW: Font sizes in Gnome 2.x are normally changed in the (Gnome Foot->)Applications->Desktop Preferences->Font dialog. You can do it from Nautilus desktop too: Start Here->Desktop Preferences->Font (although Gnome 2.2+ might have Nautilus change the name of "Start Here" to something more intelligible).

When I meant the BIG FONT TROUBLE, I should have said BUG or something like, because I had already configured the Look and Feel and the font sizes were all around 8 or 10, and modifying their size to very little ones, like 1 or 2 WOULD NOT FIX MY TROUBLE, since the menu fonts change, but the OPEN OFFICE and other places mentioned in the original topic DO NOT CHANGE and keep unreadable. I might think this has something to do with the monitor or graphics card. My graphics card is a GeForce 64 MB. I tried Linux on my Brother comp and the same problem happened ( he''s got a different graphics card than mine), but we used the same monitor (AOC Spectrum 5 Elr). The Linux version I am using is RedHat 8.0 and the bug happens either in KDE or GNOME.

Thank you, hope someone could solve my problem...

Just out of curiosity, is your brothers card also NVidia based? I have seen several complaints online that the new NVidia drivers are displaying massive fonts in several distros...

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quote: Original post by doodle_sketch
Just out of curiosity, is your brothers card also NVidia based? I have seen several complaints online that the new NVidia drivers are displaying massive fonts in several distros...

I didn''t have any font problems with the newest NVidia drivers, but they are broken in just about every other way that the 3xxx series wasn''t (their 2D performance sucks, they don''t refresh the screen properly or when they should, et cetera). The 3xxx series of the NVidia drivers is what I would recommend to *nix users.

That said, I''m not saying it''s not the cause of his problem.

I think RH made some heavy modification to their X server too, as fonts in fltk application look awful, with no anti-aliasing enabled (compiled with --enable-xft).

This could be a reason for the large fonts too. Try another distro, if that''s possible.