remerged nvidia-drivers, now fvwm's fonts are huge [SOLVED]

ExecutorElassus

So, I updated my kernel today to 4.18.12. As I always do, I reinstalled nvidia-drivers before rebooting (but the same version, 390.87, as previously, which I am stuck on because newer versions no longer support my GTX580).

So those were the only two packages I emerged, and then I rebooted. Now, the window title-bar and menu fonts in FVWM are all a good 50% larger than they were, eating up a bunch of screen real-estate.

checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log for "dpi" returns the following:

duane · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:08 pm Post subject:

Has your "Xft.dpi" changed when you do "xrdb -query"? You might be able to set that in an .Xresources file and import it in .xinitrc. I set mine to 140 since my screen resolution is better than my eyes.

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:30 pm Post subject:

'xrdb -query' returns the following:

duane · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:00 pm Post subject:

Well, what I do is put this in .Xresources:

Xft.dpi: 140

Then put this in .xinitrc:

/usr/bin/xrdb -merge /home/duaner/.Xresources &

Without that, my openbox fonts are way too small for my taste.

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:09 pm Post subject:

Update: turns out that my Xft.dpi setting was wrong, and setting it to the correct value helped a bit.

But also, the main font definition in .fvwm/decorations was also garbage. I'm not sure why I just copied over somebody else's xorg regular font definition, but just setting it to the appropriate Xft definition resulted in a much nicer-looking font, and now I can control its size.

So, I'll put [SOLVED] in the subject, now that it's sorted.

Cheers,

EE