Hi,
I have some annoying gui font sizes problems with icedove 3.0 (i.e. thunderbird) and iceweasel 4.0 (i.e. firefox) under Trinity on Debian Squeeze.
I use a laptop (1280×800) with a docking station and an external 19" screen (1280*1024). When I plug the laptop on its docking station and change display settings to use the 19" screen, everything resizes correctly (the desktop, trinity apps, etc.) except iceweasel and icedove that begin to use very huge fonts sizes in gui display (menus, toolbars, etc.). When I set display back to the laptop screen, the issue is still there.
Recently, I upgraded to iceweasel 4.0 and I remember that I didn't have this issue with iceweasel 3.5.x. So I guess this might be linked to a wrong integration of gtk (libgtk2.0-0, versions above 2.10) into Trinity. Are there too many new features in gtk that are not well handled by gtk-qt-engine-trinity?
You'll a screenshot of the situation here: http://users.klvb-larve.org/nico/bugs/icedove-wrong-font-size.png
Advice are welcome!
Nicolas
PS: more details on the icedove & iceweasel versions: I got iceweasel 4.0 (4.0.1-1~bpo60+1) thanks to this backport repository available from mozilla.debian.net:
http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports/iceweasel-4.0 i386 Packages
I use the Debian stable version of icedove: 3.0.11-1+squeeze2
On 17/06/11 11:04, Nicolas Bercher wrote:
Hi,
I have some annoying gui font sizes problems with icedove 3.0 (i.e. thunderbird) and iceweasel 4.0 (i.e. firefox) under Trinity on Debian Squeeze.
I use a laptop (1280×800) with a docking station and an external 19" screen (1280*1024). When I plug the laptop on its docking station and change display settings to use the 19" screen, everything resizes correctly (the desktop, trinity apps, etc.) except iceweasel and icedove that begin to use very huge fonts sizes in gui display (menus, toolbars, etc.). When I set display back to the laptop screen, the issue is still there.
Recently, I upgraded to iceweasel 4.0 and I remember that I didn't have this issue with iceweasel 3.5.x. So I guess this might be linked to a wrong integration of gtk (libgtk2.0-0, versions above 2.10) into Trinity. Are there too many new features in gtk that are not well handled by gtk-qt-engine-trinity?
You'll a screenshot of the situation here: http://users.klvb-larve.org/nico/bugs/icedove-wrong-font-size.png
Advice are welcome!
Nicolas
PS: more details on the icedove & iceweasel versions: I got iceweasel 4.0 (4.0.1-1~bpo60+1) thanks to this backport repository available from mozilla.debian.net:
http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports/iceweasel-4.0 i386 Packages
I use the Debian stable version of icedove: 3.0.11-1+squeeze2
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You could investigate smxi, the Debian "Swiss Army Knife" http://smxi.org/
I have used it for some years, it's really good. The developer was one of the original Sidux crew.
Among other things there is an option to dump the gtk file handlers for Mozilla stuff (iceweasel is rebranded mozilla)
Make sure kdm-trinity is closed </etc/init.d/kdm-trinity stop> before you run it and restart it manually from console </etc/init.d/kdm-trinity start> , smxi will not automatically detect Trinity and must run with X closed
Regards,
David
On 17/06/2011 14:57, David Hare wrote:
You could investigate smxi, the Debian "Swiss Army Knife" http://smxi.org/
I have used it for some years, it's really good. The developer was one of the original Sidux crew.
Among other things there is an option to dump the gtk file handlers for Mozilla stuff (iceweasel is rebranded mozilla)
Make sure kdm-trinity is closed </etc/init.d/kdm-trinity stop> before you run it and restart it manually from console </etc/init.d/kdm-trinity start> , smxi will not automatically detect Trinity and must run with X closed
Regards,
David
Thank you for this very interesting link, even though I didn't investigate this yet.
An update here: I recently discovered that the font size problem doesn't only affect mozilla softwares but also, for example, the trinity session locker and sometimes konsole (very small fonts when switching between screens for both of them).
Does anyone understand what's happening here? Alternatively, is there any away I can force Trinity for set/reset the font sizes on demand?
Thank you a lot, Nicolas
On 23/06/2011 00:13, Nicolas Bercher wrote:
Does anyone understand what's happening here? Alternatively, is there any away I can force Trinity for set/reset the font sizes on demand?
Of course, I tried to do so using the standard gui (kcmshell fonts) and unfortunately, this had impacted only the correctly sized fonts (in various apps). So it seems that the problematic fonts somehow are no more managed by the kde fonts system.
Nicolas
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