[Bug 118745] Fixed it in my computer

[Jean Pierre Rupp]

I "fixed" things on my computer this way:

First I changed /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom and added this lines to the
end:

[server-Standard]
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0 -dpi 96

It's lovely that Gnome is able to change it's font size to suit whatever
resolution my system is reporting. But it only makes sense really if
EVERYTHING scales accordingly, I mean icons, and panels, toolbars,
widgets, etc. if only fonts are scaled, the desktop doesn't look quite
right, it gets distorted. So I don't care much about autodetected DPI,
and I leave it as 96 dpi which seems to give the least distorted output
for the desktop and most applications.

[server-Standard]
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0 -dpi 96

I then changed the two libgnome fonts (document font and inteface font)
to be back at 10 dpi, if I leave them as 11 dpi and use a monospace
11dpi, Nautilus 11dpi and a Metacity 11dpi font, then fonts inside
Firefox will look too small compared to the rest. This I fixed changing
/usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_libgnome2-common so all text reading "Sans
11" would now read "Sans 10". Then I ran update-gconf-defaults.

I also added a value to the end of this same file:
/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/hinting	full

And ran update-gconf-defaults again. This last setting fixes the
problems with font weight with gnome-terminal and OpenOffice.org.

I hope this serves the developers.

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Font sizes in Gutsy are vulnerable to bad X.org DPI detection
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118745
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